num_pages: 499
description: Much of the history of biology has been a matter of working with animals and plants. From Mendel’s grasses to Barbara McClintock’s maize, as well as a menagerie of animals, Jim Endersby tells their story.Contents:Preface and acknowledgements --1. Equus quagga and 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.
language: English
title: A Guinea Pig's History of Biology: The animals and plants that taught us the facts of life
titlecomplete: A Guinea Pig's History of Biology: The animals and plants that taught us the facts of life
genres: Science, Nonfiction, History, Biology, Evolution, Genetics, History Of Science, Natural History, Popular Science, Animals
ratings_count: 200
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: RSL Jerwood Award
publisher: William Heinemann