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Chargement... Science as a Way of Knowing: The Foundations of Modern Biology (1993)par John A. Moore
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Subtitled "The Foundations of Modern Biology". This is a book of deep learning in the biological sciences, devoted to the history of biology. It is organized in four parts. Part One, Understanding Nature, discusses the birth of biology in Aristotle, the stifling of scientific advance by the advent of the religious world view in the dark ages, and the beginnings of revival with the use of the microsope in the seventeenth century. Moore is very wise in his identification of descriptive and theoretical approaches to science, but his historical surveys lack some of the nuance supplied by modern historiography. The second part is on evolution, and is interesting in the tests of Darwin's hypotheses, and is more an argument than the rest of the book. The third part, on classical genetics, was fascinating in its description of how cytology and crossing experiments came together to make the modern view of genetics possible. Crossing experiments in drosophila (Thomas Hunt Morgan) provided the theoretical basis for how genes assort and generate phenotypes, while the cytologists identified the chromosome and the basis of how a cell mechanisms perform the genetic sort. The final part is on embryology and differentiation, again a classical perspective from experiments early in the century. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
For the past twenty-five years John Moore has taught biology instructors how to teach biology--by emphasizing the questions people have asked about life through the ages and the ways natural philosophers and scientists have sought the answers. This book makes Moore's uncommon wisdom available to students in a lively and richly illustrated account of the history and workings of life. Employing a breadth of rhetoric strategies--including vividly written case histories, hypotheses and deductions, and chronological narrative--Science as a Way of Knowing provides not only a cultural history of biology but also a splendid introduction to the procedures and values of science. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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