Hereditary Allegories : A Study in Genetics
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"There are two equally dangerous extremes - to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in."
- Pascal
"There are two equally dangerous extremes - to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in."
- Pascal
The following sites provided some of the background for this project, and offer a brief history of genetics research as well as information on a few related subjects, such as eugenics and patenting issues.
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)
Classic Papers in Genetics
Clinical Neurogenetics
Could You Patent the Sun?
Eugenics Watch
Evelyn Fox Keller: a bibliography
for another view entirely...
Genetics and the Internet
Genetics Websites
The Human Gene Map
Human Genome Project
MendelWeb
National Center for Genome Resources
The Process of Biomedical Discovery
Refiguring Life: Metaphors of 20th Century Biology
Transgenics a Threat to Nature, by Peter Wills
Transgenic Animals
and some favorite books...
