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.

• | Author: John Waller
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 24, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 177 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0198790457
• | ISBN-13: 9780198790457