- Introduction
- I. Adventures in Lancashire
- 1. An Improbable Birth
- 2. A Rising Tide
- 3. Auspicious Beginnings
- 4. In Search of Tulips and Truth
- II. Science
- 5. From Cytology to Evolution
- 6. Roots of a Scientific Controversy
- 7. Method, Discipline and Character
- Interlude
- III. Politics
- 8. The Lysenko Affair
- 9. Marxism and the Slaying of a Mentor
- 10. Science in a Changing World
- IV. Man
- 11. The Conflict of Science and Society
- 12. On the Determination of Uncertainty
- 13. The Breakdown of Classical Genetics
- 14. On the Uncertainty of Determination
- 15. One Final Hurrah
- Conclusion: Paradoxes
- Bibliography
- Index


The Man Who Invented the Chromosome
A Life of Cyril Darlington
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$89.00 • £71.95 • €80.00
ISBN 9780674013339
Publication Date: 06/15/2004