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Book SynopsisFrom Cells to Organisms is both a history of science and a history of how ideas are developed and accepted in society.
Trade Review"Reading Lyons’s superb book on the history of cells and their relation to organisms provides a much more complex story that shows how mid-19th-century outlooks became modified and raised new questions about the meaning of the terms cell and organism, between reductionist and holistic or organicist approaches to study the cell in its relation to heredity and development." -- Elof Axel Carlson * The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 96, No. 2 *
"In addition to offering an intriguing challenge to cell theory, this book also provides an enjoyable history of multiple scientific disciplines. By considering theories that are well accepted and theories that have been rejected, Lyons reminds the reader that data are subject to human interpretation, and that we must therefore never stop being curious and questioning of even the most ingrained ideas." -- C. Kale *
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Microscopes and the Discovery of the Cell 2. The Physical Basis of Life 3. The Cell as the Unit of Heredity and Development 4. The Cell Theory in Development 5. Progress in Understanding Heredity 6. Organisms, Ebryonic Induction, and Morphogenetic Fields 7. Twoness 8. How Does a Chicken become an Egg: Evo Devo and Ecodevo Epilogue Appendix Milestones and Controversies in the History of Cell Theory Glossary Bibliography Index
