The Emergence of Genetic Rationality: Space, Time, and Information in American Biological Science, 1870-1920

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University of Washington Press, 2007 - History - 381 pages
The emergence of genetic science has profoundly shaped how we think about biology. Indeed, it is difficult now to consider nearly any facet of human experience without first considering the gene. But this mode of understanding life is not, of course, transhistorical. Phillip Thurtle takes us back to the moment just before the emergence of genetic rationality at the turn of the twentieth century to explicate the technological, economic, cultural, and even narrative transformations necessary to make genetic thinking possible.

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Phillip Thurtle is assistant professor in the Comparative History of Ideas Program, University of Washington.

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