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Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
de HENIG, Robin Marantz
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395977657
- ISBN 13
- 9780395977651
- Librería
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Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0395977657 . Book club edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .
Sinopsis
Most people know that Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk who patiently grew his peas in a monastery garden, shaped our understanding of inheritance. But people might not know that Mendel's work was ignored in his own lifetime, even though it contained answers to the most pressing questions raised by Charles Darwin's revolutionary book, ON ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES, published only a few years earlier. Mendel's single chance of recognition failed utterly, and he died a lonely and disappointed man. Thirty-five years later, his work was rescued from obscurity in a single season, the spring of 1900, when three scientists from three different countries nearly simultaneously dusted off Mendel's groundbreaking paper and finally recognized its profound significance. The perplexing silence that greeted Mendel's discovery and his ultimate canonization as the father of genetics make up a tale of intrigue, jealousy, and a healthy dose of bad timing. Telling the story as it has never been told before, Robin Henig crafts a suspenseful, elegant, and richly detailed narrative that fully evokes Mendel's life and work and the fate of his ideas as they made their perilous way toward the light of day. THE MONK IN THE GARDEN is a literary tour de force about a little-known chapter in the history of science, and it brings us back to the birth of genetics - a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself.
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- Librería
- Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 36145
- Título
- Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
- Autor
- HENIG, Robin Marantz
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0395977657
- ISBN 13
- 9780395977651
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston:
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Palabras clave
- 0395977657, BIOGRAPHY, SCIENCE
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Science;
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