Science as a Way of Knowing: The Foundations of Modern BiologyHarvard University Press, 1993 - 530 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
UNDERSTANDING NATURE | 9 |
Aristotle and the Greek View of Nature | 30 |
Those Rational Greeks? | 43 |
The JudeoChristian Worldview | 59 |
The Revival of Science | 77 |
Figurd Stones and Plastick Virtue | 102 |
THE GROWTH | 129 |
Fertilization | 279 |
Mendel and the Birth of Genetics | 285 |
19001910 | 304 |
The Genetics of the Fruit | 328 |
The Structure and Function of Genes | 360 |
THE ENIGMA OF DEVELOPMENT | 385 |
The Century of Discovery | 403 |
Descriptive Embryology | 419 |
Testing Darwins Hypotheses | 138 |
Have Life Forms Changed over Time? | 148 |
Has There Been Time Enough for Evolution? | 157 |
The Genetic Basis of Natural Selection | 166 |
Life over Time | 192 |
CLASSICAL GENETICS | 231 |
The Cell Theory | 252 |
The Technology of Cell Research | 261 |
The Dawn of Analytical Embryology | 442 |
Interactions during Development | 470 |
Conclusion | 501 |
Further Reading | 507 |
Illustration Credits | 523 |
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Science as a Way of Knowing: The Foundations of Modern Biology John Alexander Moore Vista de fragmentos - 1993 |
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