Defining biology
Subtitle: lectures from the 1890s
By: edited by Jane Maienschein.
Contributors: Maienschein, Jane.; Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Biology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lectures given at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., in the 1890s.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jane Maienschein; title: The mosaic theory of development / Edmund Beecher Wilson; title: The hereditary mechanism and the search for the unknown factors of evolution / Henry Fairfield Osborn; title: The problems, methods, and scope of developmental mechanics / Wilhelm Roux; title: Cleavage and differentiation / Edwin Grant Conklin; title: Relation of the axis of the embryo to the first cleavage plane / Cornelia Maria Clapp; title: Caspar Friedrich Wolff and the theoria generationis / William Morton Wheeler; title: Animal behavior / Charles Otis Whitman; title: The behavior of unicellular organisms / Herbert Spencer Jennings; title: Regeneration, old and new interpretations / Thomas Hunt Morgan; title: On the nature of the process of fertilization / Jacques Loeb; title: Epilogue / Paul R. Gross.