- 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


A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology
Product Details
PAPERBACK
$38.00 • £30.95 • €34.00
ISBN 9780674032279
Publication Date: 08/05/2009
Awards & Accolades
- 2004 Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction, Royal Society of Literature