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Heredity Produced: At the Crossroads of Biology, Politics, and Culture, 1500-1870 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) (1st Edition) by Staffan Müller-Wille (Editor), Laure Cartron, Peter Mclaughlin, Renato G. Mazzolini, Nicolas Pethes, Marc J. Ratcliff, Ohad S. Parnes, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Helmuth Müller-Sievers, François Duchesneau, Carlos López Beltrán, Jed Z. Buchwald, David Warren Sabean, Silvia De Renzi, Ulrike Vedder, Paul White, Philip K. Wilson, Roger J. Wood, Mary Terrall, Stefan Willer, Franã§Ois Duchesneau, Staffan Muller#8211 Hardcover, 496 Pages, Published 2007 ISBN-10: 0-262-13476-4 / 0262134764 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-13476-7 / 9780262134767 The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of the act of "generation" to its later nineteenth-century definition as the transmission of characteristics across generations.Until the middl |