Main description:

This biography provides an understanding of William Bateson as well as a reconciliation of diverging views (e.g. the hierarchical thinking of Gould and the genocentrism of George Williams and Richard Dawkins). Evolutionists may thus, at long last, present a unified front to their creationist opponents. The pressing need for this text is apparent from the high percentages reported not to believe in evolution and the growth of the so-called "intelligent design" movement.

Contents:

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Prologue

Part I. Genesis of a Geneticist

1 A Cambridge Childhood (1861-1882

2 From Virginia to the Aral Sea (1883-1889)

3 Galton

4 Variation (1890-1894)

5 Romanes

6 Reorientation and Controversy (1895-1899)

7 What Life May Be

Part II. Mendelism

8 Rediscovery (1900-1901)

9 Mendel's Bulldog (1902-1906)

10 Bateson's Bulldog

11 On Course (1907-1908)

12 Darwin Centenary (1909)

13 Chromosomes

Part III. The Innes Years

14 Passages (1910-1914)

15 Eugenics

16 War (1915-1919)

17 My Respectful Homage (1920-1922)

18 Limits Undetermined (1923-1926)

Part IV. Politics

19 Butler

20 Pilgrimages

21 Kammerer

22 Science and Chauvinism

23 Degrees for Women

Part V. Eclipse

24 Bashing

25 Epilogue

Part VI. Further Rediscovery

26 The Third Base

27 Mendel Basics

28 Romanes, Bateson, and Darwin's "Weak Point"

29 Bateson's Residue: Oligonucleotide Disharmony

Publications of William Bateson

References and Notes

Acknowledgements

Index