Overview
The pressing need for this text is apparent from the high percentages reported not to believe in evolution and the growth of the so-called “intelligent design” movement
So far biohistorians have failed to come up with a comprehensive biography of William Bateson. In 1986 William Provine concluded: “Evolutionary biology in the period 1859-1925 is extraordinary complex”. To understand this period we must understand Bateson
Many books of this nature are written by historians of science who are often able to provide an attractive narrative, but are less able to untangle the more controversial aspects of the science. The present book is written by two “card carrying” bioscientists who, relatively late in their careers, turned to biohistory while remaining at the “cutting edge” of their disciplines. For several decades the Bateson papers languished in the attic of an outhouse at Hancock in New Hampshire, until “repatriated” by Alan Cock in 1975 with the help of Stephen Jay Gould
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Innes Years
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About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This work includes key events in Bateson’s career and is strengthened by discussion of the rediscovery of Mendelian principles by early-20th-century geneticists. … this interesting work will appeal to biologists and historians of science. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections." (J. S. Schwartz, Choice, Vol. 46 (7), March, 2009)
"The presnt book is particularly welcome in helping to fill a significant gap in the history of genetics … . Donald Forsdyke has now extended and completed the book, a major undertaking for which both geneticists and historians should be grateful." (Peter S. Harper, Human Genetics, Vol. 125, 2009)
"This volume will be of enormous benefit to historians of science who like to follow how ideas are born or die and why participants of different sides of each controversy held such rigid views of their own work and saw little merit in their competitor’s research. … I recommend reading all 745 pages of this biography. It is worth the effort … ." (Elof Axel Carlson, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 84, December, 2009)
“Cock and Forsdyke’s detailed scientific biography of Bateson is very timely. … a fascinating read and well worth the effort. It is a splendid addition to the several good historical works on genetics that have appeared in recent years and also serves as a salutary reminder that great ideas in science have a habit of being successively reborn, often in superficially different forms and guises … . serve as a pragmatic impetus for all scientists to carefully study the history of their respective fields.” (Amitabh Joshi, Journal of Genetics, Vol. 89 (4), December, 2010)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Treasure Your Exceptions
Book Subtitle: The Science and Life of William Bateson
Authors: Alan Cock, Donald R. Forsdyke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75688-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-75687-5Published: 08 September 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-75688-2Published: 31 October 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 750
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Human Genetics, History of Medicine, Life Sciences, general, Philosophy of Biology