Beyond the Gene Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority in Genetics

The scope and significance of cytoplasmic inheritance has been the subject of one of the longest controversies in the history of genetics. In the first major book on the history of this subject, Jan Sapp analyses the persistent attempts of investigators of non-Mendelian inheritance to establish their claims, in the face of strong resistance from nucleo-centric geneticists and classical neo-Darwinians. A new perspective on the history of genetics is offered, as he explores theoppositions which have shaped theoretical thinking about heredity and evolution throughout the century: materialism/vitalism, reductionism/holism, preformation/epigenesis, neo-Darwinism/neo-Lamarckism, gradualism/saltationism.Sapp, Jan is the author of 'Beyond the Gene Cytoplasmic Inheritance and the Struggle for Authority in Genetics' with ISBN 9780195042061 and ISBN 0195042069.