A Guinea Pig's History of Biology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Guinea Pig's History of Biology write by Jim Endersby. This book was released on 2007. A Guinea Pig's History of Biology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved," Darwin famously concluded The Origin of Species, and for confirmation we look to...the guinea pig? How this curious creature and others as humble (and as fast-breeding) have helped unlock the mystery of inheritance is the unlikely story Jim Endersby tells in this book. Biology today promises everything from better foods or cures for common diseases to the alarming prospect of redesigning life itself. Looking at the organisms that have made all this possible gives us a new way of understanding how we got here--and perhaps of thinking about where we're going. Instead of a history of which great scientists had which great ideas, this story of passionflowers and hawkweeds, of zebra fish and viruses, offers a bird's (or rodent's) eye view of the work that makes science possible. Mixing the celebrities of genetics, like the fruit fly, with forgotten players such as the evening primrose, the book follows the unfolding history of biological inheritance from Aristotle's search for the "universal, absolute truth of fishiness" to the apparently absurd speculations of eighteenth-century natural philosophers to the spectacular findings of our day--which may prove to be the absurdities of tomorrow. The result is a quirky, enlightening, and thoroughly engaging perspective on the history of heredity and genetics, tracing the slow, uncertain path--complete with entertaining diversions and dead ends--that led us from the ancient world's understanding of inheritance to modern genetics.
The Biology of the Guinea Pig
The Biology of the Guinea Pig - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Biology of the Guinea Pig write by Joseph E. Wagner. This book was released on 2014-04-25. The Biology of the Guinea Pig available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Approx.317 pages
Guinea Pig Scientists
Guinea Pig Scientists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guinea Pig Scientists write by Leslie Dendy. This book was released on 2005-06. Guinea Pig Scientists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stories of ten men and women, from the 1770s to the present, who devoted their lives, and sometimes risked them, to answer some of the big questions in science and medicine.
Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-Pigs and Rats (Classic Reprint)
Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-Pigs and Rats (Classic Reprint) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-Pigs and Rats (Classic Reprint) write by W. E. Castle. This book was released on 2017-10-22. Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-Pigs and Rats (Classic Reprint) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from Studies of Inheritance in Guinea-Pigs and Rats For several years I have been engaged in studies of heredity in guinea-pigs. In the course of these studies all the common varieties of guinea-pigs have been investigated by the method of experimental breeding and something has been learned concerning their inter relationships and probable mode of origin. The actual origin of most Of these varieties is, however, unknown, as is true also concerning most varieties of domesticated animals. One or two varieties have, however, been made synthetically in the laboratory and it is conceivable that, if we had the original wild stock to work with, from which the domesticated guinea-pig has arisen, some or all Of the existing varieties might be synthesized anew and perhaps still others might be Obtained, and that in this way something might be learned of the method by which new varieties arise. From considerations such as these I have for several years been seeking to obtain living specimens Of the wild species which most closely resemble guinea-pigs. In 1903 I received from Campinas, Brazil, 3 wild - caught individuals referred at the time to the species Cam'a aperea, but Since found to agree better with the description Of C. Rufescens. From two of these animals young were Obtained, and crosses, the results of which have been described in detail by Dr. Detlefsen were made with domesticated guinea pigs. It may be noted that all male F1 hybrids were sterile, but that the PI females were fertile, and that upon repeated crossing Of these with male guinea-pigs, a race Of fertile hybrids was at last obtained, these being, in the language of breeders, about guinea-pig, firufescens. From this result it seems doubtful whether C. Rufescens has any close genetic relationship to the domesticated guinea-pig, although by hybridization it has been found possible to produce races (g or more guinea-pig) which have derived certain characters from a rufescens ancestor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Reversion in Guinea-pigs and Its Explanation
Reversion in Guinea-pigs and Its Explanation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reversion in Guinea-pigs and Its Explanation write by William Ernest Castle. This book was released on 1913. Reversion in Guinea-pigs and Its Explanation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
