Defining Biology

Lectures from the 1890's

Edited by Jane Maienschein

    Foreword
    Ernst Mayr

    Preface
    Jane Maienschein

    Introduction
    Jane Maienschein

    List Of Biological Lectures

    Illustrations

    1. The Mosaic Theory of Development
    Edmund Beecher Wilson

    2. The Hereditary Mechanism and the Search for the Unknown Factors of Evolution
    Henry Fairfield Osborn

    3. The Problems, Methods, and Scope of Developmental Mechanics
    Wilhelm Roux

    4. Cleavage and Differentiation
    Edwin Grant Conklin

    5. Relation of the Axis of The Embryo to the First Cleavage Plane
    Cornelia Maria Clapp

    6. Caspar Friedrich Wolff and the Theoria Generationis
    William Morton Wheeler

    7. Animal Behavior
    Charles Otis Whitman

    8. The Behavior of Unicellular Organisms
    Herbert Spencer Jennings

    9. Regeneration: Old and New Interpretations
    Thomas Hunt Morgan

    10. On the Nature of the Process of Fertilization
    Jacques Loeb

    Epilogue
    Paul R. Gross

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Jane Maienschein is Regents' Professor of Biology and Society and Director of the Center for Biology and Society at Arizona State University.