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The epic history of biology
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- Creator
- Anthony Serafini
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Plenum, [1993]
- ©1993
- Physical Details
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- xi, 395 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780306445118, 0306445115
- OCLC
- ocm28423857
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The beginnings -- Mesopotamia -- Greek medicine -- Rome -- The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance -- Pestilence in the Renaissance -- The age of Vesalius -- The Harvey era -- The age of Newton -- The microscope and Leeuwenhoek -- The meeting of biology and chemistry -- Ray and the emergence of cell theory -- The age of Linnaeus and the Enlightenment -- Lamarck and his system -- The rise of paleontology -- Biology in the Victorian era -- Darwin and his age -- Embryology and biochemistry in the Darwinian era -- The age of Pasteur and the development of the microscope -- Biology in the twentieth century -- T.H. Morgan and the rise of genetics -- On the trail of DNA -- Evolution and genetic engineering