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Why Im Like Dad

Why do cats give birth to kittens, lions to lion-cubs, and rabbits to baby rabbits? Why do human children, too, not only outwardly look like their parents, but also resemble them in character and disposition? Why are twins as like as two peas or quite different? Why are some babies born monsters? Can man remake animals and plants to order? Questions like those are the field of this book. It describes the quests that led to major discoveries in genetics, and the obstacles encountered by researches, and tells about the scientists who study heredity, and how to change it. The author, a prominent biologist himself, takes the reader to research laboratories, farm fields, and hospitals, opening up before him the whole broad field of modern genetics. Why I'm Like Dad received the award of the USSR Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge (Znaniye) for the best popular science writing in 1967. Contents Contents PROLOGUE 7 The Professor v the Canon 7 POSTHUMOUS FAME 13 The Great Mystery 13 Vesicles and Cells 15 The Academy Sponsors a Contest 19 Academies and Science 24 Johann Becomes Gregor 27 Laws of Nature 31 The Game of Dice 35 A Mad Hypothesis 39 The Abbot of St. Thomas' Mo

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