Styles of Scientific Thought: The German Genetics Community, 1900-1933 (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) available on November 06 2014 from Amazon for $24.99
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^Jonathan HarwoodStyles of Scientific Thought: The German Genetics Community, 1900-1933 (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series), University Of Chicago Press. Amazon. ISBN 9780226318820 (revised Nov 2014)
Harwood documents the German genetics researchers in the early 20th century. A current reader should note that they worked under the extreme handicap of not knowing enough about the underlying fundamentals of gene propagation. At that time, the research tools and concomitant understanding was at the level of the chromosome if and more typically at the phenotypic level.We see how by 1900 Mendel's work was known and its significance appreciated. There was thus the idea of the genotype. This mysterious thing t..