A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology

Jim Endersby

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$37.00 • £29.95 • €33.50

ISBN 9780674032279

Publication Date: 08/05/2009

* Academic Trade

544 pages

6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches

12 halftones

United States and its dependencies only

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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

Awards & Accolades

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

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