Advance Information THE STORY OF GENETICS, DEVELOPMENT AND EVOLUTION A Historical Dialogue

By Gáspár Jékely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany)

Key Features: Pub Date: Oct 2017 • Entertaining and didactic style Binding: Hardcover • Uses an historical perspective to allow the gradual learning of the subject ISBN: 978-1-78634-252-2 • Conversational structure • Synthesizing different disciplines thus providing an integrative understanding of biology Price: £123 Binding: Softcover Description: ISBN: 978-1-78634-253-9 This unique story offers an introductory conversation to genetics, embryology and evolution, Price: £65 taking us on a historical journey of biology through the ages. Using a series of dialogues Page Extent: 500pp between the Greek philosopher Democritus and his disciple Alkimus, we travel through time Type: Monograph (Treat as visiting eminent scientists throughout the centuries, from Lazzaro Spallanzani and Theodor Textbook) Boveri to Francis Crick, Max Perutz and Christiane Nüsslein–Volhard. We find ourselves at the intersection of competing theories in biology and witness the progression fromthe Main Subject: Life Sciences & debunking the theory of spontaneous generation to the mapping of the genome. Attention Biology is given not only to the great successes in the field but also to the equally important and Sub-subjects: Evolution Biology; exciting failures. Human Biology/Biological Anthropology/Primatology; Originally published in Hungarian, The Story of Genetics, Development and Evolutionprovides Genetics and Genomics a historical background to the life sciences, with complex scientific concepts stripped down BIC: PSAJ and explained carefully for academics and anyone interested in going back to the roots and BISAC: SCI027000; SCI029000; philosophies of scientific progress. PHI000000 Keywords: Genetics; Evolution; Translated from: Jékely G Master, are you awake? A fictitious dialogue on genetics, Democritus; Spontaneous development and evolution. 2006, Bratislava: Kalligram Generation; Embryology; Genetics; Developmental Genetics; Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology Readership: Students of biology, philosophy and medicine and anyone interested in the history and philosophy of biological discoveries Imprint: World Scientific Europe Contents: • Preface • At the Harbour • At the Market • Part One: • The Mystery (and Sperm) of Life’s Origins • Deux Ex Machina • The World Egg • Spontaneous Generation and Meat Broth — Lazzaro Spallanzani • Types and Rhythms of Embryos — Karl Ernst Von Baer • Cell From a Cell • The Feats of the Sea Urchin • Part Two: • Chromosomes, Mendelian Factors and Evolution • Roasted Capon • The Immortal Germplasm • Reduction Division • A London Pigeon Sale — Thomas Henry Huxley • The Orchard of Evolution • Peas and Minotaur — William Bateson • Galton and Mendel • Two Sperm, One Ovum — Theodor Boveri • Part Three: • The Triumph of Genes • Trickster Mendelians — Thomas Hunt Morgan • Sex Chromosomes • The Telltale White Eye • Genetic Mapping • Part Four: • Forces and Reactions • The Mathematics of Life — D’arcy Wentworth Thompson • The Two-Headed Newt • Zeus’s Beard • Evolutionary Synthesis • The Casting Moulds of Genes — Hermann Joseph Muller • Fronts On the Wings of a Moth — Alfred Kühn • The Birth of Patterns • Part Five: • The Atoms of Life • Hormones in Larva Blood • One Gene, One Enzyme — George Wells Beadle • The Protein-Genes • The Principle of Transformation — Oswald Theodore Avery • The Triple Helix — Linus Pauling • DNA with Ambrosia • Part Six: • Codes and Links • The Central Dogma — Francis Crick • The Diamond Code of Proteins • The Genetic Code • A Molecular Lung — Max Ferdinand Perutz • Sugar-Consuming Bacteria — Jacques Monod • Part Seven: • Genes in the Mortar • Epigenesis and Genetics — Conrad Hal Waddington • A Recipe for Making Mice — Sydney Brenner • The Wiring of a Worm’s Brain • Recombinant DNA • Striped Embryos — Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard • Our Worm Ancestors — Detlev Arendt • The Age of Genomics — Eugene Koonin • Part Eight: • Beyond Genes • Postcard to Thrace • The Cedar Forest of Abdera • The Philosophy of Biology — Ernst Mayr • The Genetics of the Biosphere • Biscuits Baked in Ash • On the Island of Bensalem — Pál Nagy-Juhász • Epilogue • On Mount Olympus • The Bay of Abdera