Genetics: Genes, Genomes, and EvolutionBiblio.com
[GENETICS -- WOMEN]. AUERBACH, CharlotteBiblio.com
The science of genetics. Drawings by Inge G. Auerbach Linker.
1969ref. 64531London UK: Radius Book/Hutchinson 1969. 8vo. x 2 273 1 pp. Text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers minor creasing to lower corner rear cover still VG bright copy inscribed “In good friendship Lotte” to Elof Axel Carlson 1931-2025 noted geneticist historian of science and fierce opponent of eugenics. Revised edition signed of this well-written work by the pioneering Jewish German-British geneticist considered the “mother of chemical mutagenesis” who had discovered while researching mustard gas through World War II that it could induce gene mutations in fruit flies and that chemicals could alter DNA. Auerbach 1899-1994 was perhaps also best remembered for her work Genetics in the Atomic Age 1956 as well as her vociferous opposition to Nuclear weapons and Apartheid. Radius Book/Hutchinson, paperback
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