A Guinea Pig's History of Biology

Jim Endersby

  • 2004 Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction

Preface and acknowledgements

1. Equus quaggaand Lord Morton's mare

2. Passiflora gracilis: Inside Darwin's greenhouse

3. Homo sapiens: Francis Galton's fairground attraction

4. Hieracium auricula: What Mendel did next

5. Oenothera lamarckiana: Hugo de Vries led up the primrose path

6. Drosophila melanogaster: Bananas, bottles and Bolsheviks

7. Cavia porcellus: Mathematical guinea pigs

8. Bacteriophage: The virus that revealed DNA

9. Zea mays: Incorrigible corn

10. Arabidopsis thaliana: A fruit fly for the botanists

11. Danio rerio: Seeing through zebrafish

12. OncoMouse®: Engineering organisms

Bibliography, sources and notes

Index

  • Cover: A Guinea Pig's History of Biology
  • A photo of the author

Photo by Pam Thurschwell

Dr. Jim Endersby is a lecturer in the History Department at the University of Sussex. He was most recently an affiliated lecturer in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University.