Defining biology : lectures from the 1890s

Author(s)

• Maienschein, Jane
• Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)

Bibliographic Information

Defining biology : lectures from the 1890s

edited by Jane Maienschein

Harvard University Press, 1986

Note

Lectures given at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., in the 1890s

Includes index

Contents of Works

• The mosaic theory of development / Edmund Beecher Wilson
• The hereditary mechanism and the search for the unknown factors of evolution / Henry Fairfield Osborn
• The problems, methods, and scope of developmental mechanics / Wilhelm Roux
• Cleavage and differentiation / Edwin Grant Conklin
• Relation of the axis of the embryo to the first cleavage plane / Cornelia Maria Clapp
• Caspar Friedrich Wolff and the theoria generationis / William Morton Wheeler
• Animal behavior / Charles Otis Whitman
• The behavior of unicellular organisms / Herbert Spencer Jennings
• Regeneration, old and new interpretations / Thomas Hunt Morgan
• On the nature of the process of fertilization / Jacques Loeb

Details

• NCID: BA00582442
• ISBN:
  • 0674196155
• LCCN: 86000307
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 337 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QH311
  • DC19 : 574
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Biology -- Addresses, essays, lectures