Genetic Analysis

Raphael Falk is Emeritus Professor, Department of Genetics and The Program for the History and Philosophy of Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His many works include The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives co-edited by Peter J. Beurton and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger (2000, 2008).

• 1. Introduction; 2. From reproduction and generation to heredity; 3. Faktoren in search of meaning; 4. The chromosome theory of inheritance; 5. Genes as the atoms of heredity; 6. Increasing resolving power; 7. Deducing genes from traits, inducing traits from genes; 8. What is true for E. coli is not true for the elephant; 9. Concluding comments; bibliography.

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