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Explore the basics of heredity and variation through the lens of early genetics. This book collects the substance of Yale’s Silliman Lectures, presenting how Mendelian methods reveal the units that shape living traits. It frames how genetics helps us understand evolution, species, and the diversity of life with careful analysis rather than broad speculation.
The pages discuss how definite, regular patterns of variation arise, how local forms relate to larger groups, and why simple ideas of adaptation don’t always explain what we see in nature. It also surveys the emergence of the mutation concept and its role in evolution, all grounded in observations from biology and natural history.
- Key ideas about unit characters or factors that drive heredity.
- How variation is structured and how it informs our view of species and subspecies.
- Examples drawn from American natural history to illustrate genetic principles.
- Context on the limits and promises of Mendelian reasoning for understanding evolution.
Ideal for readers who want a foundational, thoughtful look at early 20th‑century genetics and its impact on how we study living organisms.
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A key figure in the field of evolutionary biology, William Bateson (1861–1926) revived Mendelian methods of analysis to develop Darwin's theory of evolution, thereby pioneering the study of genetics. In these lectures, published at Yale in 1913, Bateson systematically chronicles the era's conflicting and developing theories on taxonomy, speciation, variation and hybridisation, and includes his own thoughts on continuous and discontinuous variation and its causes. Drawing on the comparative physiology and anatomy of species that he knew from his wide experience, citing detailed examples from across the taxonomic kingdoms, Bateson brings to life this exciting time in biology. Because the theories central to the modern understanding of genetics, heredity and evolution were formed at this time, this work remains valuable and relevant to students of biology and the history of science.
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