A History of Genetics
By A. H. Sturtevant
California Institute of Technology
With a New Introduction by Edward B. Lewis
In the small “Fly Room” at Columbia University, T.H. Morgan and his students, A.H. Sturtevant, C.B. Bridges, and H.J. Muller, carried out the work that laid the foundations of modern, chromosomal genetics. The excitement of those times, when the whole field of genetics was being created, is captured in this book, written in 1965 by one of those present at the beginning. His account is one of the few authoritative, analytic works on the early history of genetics.
Contents
Introduction
Author’s Preface
Chapter 1: Before Mendel
Chapter 2: Mendel
Chapter 3: 1866 to 1900
Chapter 4: The Rediscovery
Chapter 5: Genes and Chromosomes
Chapter 6: Linkage
Chapter 7: The “Fly Room”
Chapter 8: Development of Drosophila Work
Chapter 9: Genetics of Continuous Variation
Chapter 10: Oenothera
Chapter 11: Mutation
Chapter 12: Cytological Maps and the Cytology of Crossing Over
Chapter 13: Sex Determination
Chapter 14: Position Effect
Chapter 15: Genetics and Immunology
Chapter 16: Biochemical Genetics
Chapter 17: Population Genetics and Evolution
Chapter 18: Protozoa
Chapter 19: Maternal Effects
Chapter 20: The Genetics of Man
Chapter 21: General Remarks
Appendix A: Chronology
Appendix B: Intellectual Pedigrees
Bibliography
Index
Afterword: Remembering Sturtevant
