Heredity: A Very Short Introduction

Heredity: A Very Short Introduction

Very Short Introductions

John Waller describes the changing ideas concerning heredity from antiquity to the modern biological understanding, considering both the efforts over the centuries to identify the physiological mechanisms involved and how views of heredity have been used to justify or condemn inequalities of class, gender, and race.

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John Waller (Associate Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, Michigan State University) – Oxford University Press