Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Abbreviations
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
Synopsis
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.