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Hardcover Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870 Book

ISBN: 0262134764

ISBN13: 9780262134767

Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870

(Part of the Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Series)

The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to its later nineteenth-century definition as the transmission of characteristics across generations.

Until the middle of the eighteenth century, the biological makeup of an organism was ascribed to an individual instance of "generation"--involving conception,...

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