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2002rif. 60629NY: Knopf 2002. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Watson in his diminutive hand on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover
2002rif. 60629NY: Knopf 2002. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Watson in his diminutive hand on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
1969rif. 041855Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall 1969. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good Dust Jacket. Xvi 216 Pp. Green Cloth Silver Gilt. First Printing Of The Second Edition With Studies Of The In Vitro Production Of Viral Rna And Dna And Critically Evaluates Evidence Bearing On The Watson-Crick Model Of Duplication And Concludes With A New Chapter On The Genetic Code. Franklin Frank William Stahl Born 1929 Is An American Molecular Biologist And Geneticist. With Matthew Meselson Stahl Conducted The Famous Meselson-Stahl Experiment Showing That Dna Is Replicated By A Semi-Conservative Mechanism Meaning That Each Strand Of The Dna Serves As A Template For Production Of A New Strand. He Is Emeritus Professor Of Biology At The University Of Oregon's Institute Of Molecular Biology In Eugene Oregon. Prentice-Hall hardcover
2026rif. x-0197809022Oxford University Press Inc 2026. Hardcover. New. 3rd edition. 600 pages. 8.73x1.42x11.21 inches. Oxford University Press Inc hardcover
1994rif. 824798987book in excellent condition never used no mark light yellow pages due to aging satisfied guaranteed. A customer service.shipping within 2 working days An American Chemical Society Publication hardcover
1950rif. S8283no place: ca.1950-59. 1950. Includes many photos & figs. All with original wrappers. Rubber stamps or ownership signatures of Norman Horowitz. A FINE GROUP. RARE. Selection of papers from the 1950's dealing with a variety of important topics in genetics. Three of the papers are INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Includes studies of: Neurospora salmonella E. Coli bacterial populations genetic exchange mutations bacteriophages pneumococcus radiation damage bacterial growth radiation induced genetic change and DNA structure.Authors are: Homare Kuwana 2 papers; 1 INSCRIBED; S. B. Greer 1 paper; Mary Griffiths & R. Y. Stanier 1 paper; Ole Maale 6 papers; 2 INSCRIBED; J. Gross & E. Englesberg 1 paper; Charles Huebschman 1 paper; Zlata Hartman; Kerry T. Yasunobu & Walter B. Dandliker 1 paper; Henry T. Yost Jr. Dwight W. Fitterer Jr. & Howard Goldin 1 paper; Bention Nisman Georges N. Cohen Susan B. Wiesendanger & Marie-Louise Hirsch 1 paper; Thomas Clifford Nelson 1 paper; . Masamitsu Miyamoto & Thomas B. Fitzpatrick 1 paper; Edwin B. Kalan & P. R. Srinivasan 1 paper; Esther M. Lederberg 2 papers; Rollin D. Hotchkiss 4 papers; Alexander Hollaender et al 6 papers; Marie-Louise Hirsch & G. N. Cohen 1 paper; H. J. Teas 1 paper; Jan Weijer 4 papers; H. Edwin Umbarger & Edward A. Adelberg 1 paper; Thomas F. Anderson & A. H. Doermann 2 papers; M. Westergaard 1 paper; Royston C. Clowes 3 papers; W. Arber G. Kellenberger & J. Weigle 1 paper; Haim Yaniv & Charles Gilvarg 1 paper; Stephen Zamenhof 1 paper; Howard B. Newcombe 3 papers. ca.1950-59. unknown
1950rif. S8283no place: ca.1950-59. 1950. Includes many photos & figs. All with original wrappers. Rubber stamps or ownership signatures of Norman Horowitz. A FINE GROUP. RARE. Selection of papers from the 1950's dealing with a variety of important topics in genetics. Three of the papers are INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Includes studies of: Neurospora salmonella E. Coli bacterial populations genetic exchange mutations bacteriophages pneumococcus radiation damage bacterial growth radiation induced genetic change and DNA structure.Authors are: Homare Kuwana 2 papers; 1 INSCRIBED; S. B. Greer 1 paper; Mary Griffiths & R. Y. Stanier 1 paper; Ole Maale 6 papers; 2 INSCRIBED; J. Gross & E. Englesberg 1 paper; Charles Huebschman 1 paper; Zlata Hartman; Kerry T. Yasunobu & Walter B. Dandliker 1 paper; Henry T. Yost Jr. Dwight W. Fitterer Jr. & Howard Goldin 1 paper; Bention Nisman Georges N. Cohen Susan B. Wiesendanger & Marie-Louise Hirsch 1 paper; Thomas Clifford Nelson 1 paper; . Masamitsu Miyamoto & Thomas B. Fitzpatrick 1 paper; Edwin B. Kalan & P. R. Srinivasan 1 paper; Esther M. Lederberg 2 papers; Rollin D. Hotchkiss 4 papers; Alexander Hollaender et al 6 papers; Marie-Louise Hirsch & G. N. Cohen 1 paper; H. J. Teas 1 paper; Jan Weijer 4 papers; H. Edwin Umbarger & Edward A. Adelberg 1 paper; Thomas F. Anderson & A. H. Doermann 2 papers; M. Westergaard 1 paper; Royston C. Clowes 3 papers; W. Arber G. Kellenberger & J. Weigle 1 paper; Haim Yaniv & Charles Gilvarg 1 paper; Stephen Zamenhof 1 paper; Howard B. Newcombe 3 papers. ca.1950-59. unknown books
1783In 8, pp. XL + 126. Stampato su carta forte. Bella legatura coeva ai piccoli ferri con decorazione 'a ventaglio' e stemma vescovile con 6 nappe che si dipartono dal cappello ecclesiastico. Spelature al margine interno del piatto anteriore e alcuni piccoli danni agli angoli. Dorso decorato ai piccoli ferri con nervature (piccole mancanze). Mancanza alla della parte superiore del dorso mascherato da etichetta applicata. Rara edizione che apre con una prolusione sull'uso della figura del grifo ( o grifone) nell'emblematica. L'opera raccoglie 40 problemi riguardanti curiosita' scientifiche riguardanti in particolare caratteristiche umane e animali. Ad esempio: Per qual ragione veggonsi nel genere degli animali altri che vanno soggetti al fenomeno della tosse ed altri no; Donde procede che l'uomo solo fra gli altri animali sen vada alla vitiligine...; Vedere il come debba stare che dalle capre e dalle pecore tanto piu' di latte si ritragga e tanto meno dalle femmine umane e bovine...; Come vada che i maschi... riescano sempre di una mole maggiore in paragon delle femmine; Come sia che alcuni degli animali partoriscono piu' feti in una volta siccole il majale, il cane il lepre ed altri no, siccome l'uomo il leone...; Per qual motivo sia massimamente dell'uomo lo sternutare; Perche' all'uomo specialmente fra tutti gli animali dee toccare il caso di nascere storpio nelle gambe....
1751MAUPERTIUS Pierre Louis Moreau De. Venus Physique. S.l., 1751. In 16mo; pp.240, 5. Ampi margini. Cart. coevo. Blake, pag.293; Garrison Morton, 215.2.
1951rif. BING42ERT001National Institute of Genetics Japen various 1951-1980. Used; Very Good. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Annual Reports beginning with No. 2 1951 contains also Nos: 3 4 5 67 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1972. One issue has the stamp of L.C. Dunn 1893-1974a Developmental Geneticist at Columbia University. Several copies have what appear to be his initials in ink onfront cover a few have pages marked. A few copies have spine tears but overall in very good condition. Mostly around120 pages with illust. 20 issues overall. National Institute of Genetics, Japen, various unknown
rif. 77385Bâle, Ciba 1939 - 1952, 240x175mm, demi-percaline. Plats papier bois. Couvertures supérieures conservées. Etiquettes de titre imprimé sur le haut et de cotation sur le bas. Hormis cachets de bibliothèques, très bel exemplaire. SOMMAIRE: n.° 1: L’Ecole de médecine de Montpellier. - n.° 2: La médecine à la cour de Louis XIV. - n.° 3: Le développement de la génétique. - n.° 4: Les symboles de la médecine. - n.° 5: L’Islam et la médecine. - n.° 6: Superstitions médicales des Tziganes. - n.° 7: Benins et animaux venimeux. - n.° 8: Médecine et mesure du temps. - n.° 9: Médecine babylonienne. - n.° 10: Les Peaux-Rouges et leur médecins. - n.° 11: Le rôle des médecins pendant la Révolution française. - n.° 12: Les Grands Mongols et leurs médecins. - n.° 13: La Croix-Rouge, son histoire et son oeuvre. - n.° 14: Le médecin chez les anciens Romains. - n.° 15: Evolution de la médecine hindoue. - n.° 16: L’apprivoisement et le dressage des animaux sauvages. - n.° 17: La promotion au grade de docteur en médecine. - n.° 18: Portraits de médecins du début de la photographie. - n.° 19: La médecine dans l’Egypte ancienne. - n.° 20: La culture des tissus. - n.° 21: Napoléon et ses médecins. - n.° 22: La Faculté de médecine de Bologne. - n.° 24: Hachich. - n.° 25: La médecine dans l’art de la porcelaine. - n.° 26: L’hermaphrodisme. - n.° 27: Salerne. - n.° 28: Le développement de la technique de coloration histologique. - n.° 29: Portraits de médecins. - n.° 30: Réalisations techniques de médecins. - n.° 31: Animaux sauvages en captivité. - n.° 32: L’enseignement médical à Oxford et à Cambridge. - n.° 33: La main. - n.° 34: Les sciences iatriques. - n.° 35: Le nourrisson. - n.° 36: Problèmes de symétrie. - n.° 37: Le vêtement et l’hygiène. - n.° 38: La médecine dans l’Espagne de l’âge d’or. - n.° 39: L’embryon. - n.° 40: L’hygiène au moyen âge. - n.° 41: Le sel. - n.° 42: Le tatouage. - n.° 43: La respiration. - n.° 44: Le bétel. - n.° 45: L’évolution de l’hygiène urbaine et domestique. - n.° 46: Le rêve. - n.° 47: La médecine dans l’ancien Pérou. - n.° 48: Les fondements littéraires de la pharmacologie arabe. - n.° 49: Vases à médicaments. - n.° 50: Le thermomètre. - n.° 51: La médecine des Aztèques. - n.° 52: La médecine en Angleterre à l’époque des Tudors. - n.° 53: La coca. - n.° 54: L’anatomie galénique. - n.° 55: Le soufre. - n.° 56: Les médecins et la politique. - n.° 57: Le masque et la maladie. - n.° 58: Fétiches, amulettes, talismans. - n.° 59: La renaissance de l’anatomie. - n.° 60: Le chamanisme. - n.° 61: L’initiation. - n.° 62: L’oreille et l’ouïe - n.° 63: Culte du crâne, têtes-trophées et scalps. - n.° 64: L’injection. - n.° 65: La Faculté de médecine de Paris. - n.° 66: L’eau. - n.° 67: Le mesmérisme. - n.° 68: La médecine à Bali. - n.° 69: Anatomia animata. - n.° 70: Médecine et cinéma. - n.° 71: Le thé. - n.° 72: La surdi-mutité. - n.° 73: L’école de médecine d’Edimbourg. - n.° 74: Yoga. - n.° 75: Le Lait. - n.° 76: La médecine en Russie jusau’à la mort de Pierre le Grand. - n.° 77: Le microscope. - n.° 78: Le tabac. - n.° 79: Antisepsie et asepsie. - n.° 80: La sécrétion interne. - n.° 81: L’iode. - n.° 82: L’hystérie. - n.° 83: Les débuts de l’obstétrique. - n.° 84: Le test psychologique.
1871rif. 031862New York: D. Appleton and Company 1871. First American Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good . Drawings. Vi 409; V "Postscript" 436. Brown Cloth Gilt. First Edition Later Issue Still Dated 1871 On Title Page No Indication Of Later Printing But Later Issue As The First Issue Identifies 16 Errata In Volume I. Two Volumes In Original Brown Cloth Gilt Lettering On Spine Black Border And Design On Covers Light Yellow Endpapers. Two Page Catalog Origin Of Species And A Book By T H Huxley At End Of First Volume; 12 Pp Catalog Mostly Works By Spencer But Again Including Origin Of Species At End Of Second Volume. A Very Clean Unmarked Set Possibly Unread. Edges Of Page Block Still Show Original Polish. Gilt Bright Cloth Evenly Colored Endpapers Immaculate Hinges Strong And Without Cracking Attractive. Points Of Fraying At Corners And Tips Tips With Minute Professional Repairs To Cloth And Color; Faint Dampstain In Parts Of Lower Covers Of Vol. Ii Also Professionally Refurbished And Almost Invisible With No Trace Of Dampstaining Inside. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1916rif. 64516Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press January 1916. Tall 8vo. ii 106 pp. Sepia-tinted photogravure frontisp. of Gregor Mendel 3 large folding diagrams text illustrations diagrams. Gray-brown softcovers title on front cover contents on back cover minor edgewear toning minor chipping head & foot of spine minor bumping to corners still a VG- copy from the libraries of Elof Axel Carlson 1931-2025 noted geneticist historian of science and fierce opponent of eugenics and his mentor Hermann J. Mueller 1890-1967 Nobel Prize-winning geneticist who first showed exposure to radiation could produce mutations in living organisms ink manuscript note in Mueller’s hand indicating he had ordered a Mendel portrait on April 3. First edition of the first issue of this groundbreaking American scientific journal on genetics which featured Calvin Bridges pioneering work on nondisjunction which offered proofs that genes reside in chromosomes which set up the nomenclature system for naming fly mutants; one of Jennings’ foundational works proving that conjugation resulted in new combinations of hereditary traits and finally Cushing’s important work on tracing kindred with symphalangism or inheritance of genetic disorder causing straight fingers from fusion of finger joints. These early papers for clinical genetics served as excellent studies for launching this key periodical which would continue to be advanced and influenced prominent American biologists and geneticists in Jennings and Morgan’s circles. Shull was a prominent early geneticist who began as a botanical investigator at the Carnegie Institution and later with Princeton from 1915 to 1942 applying the principles of Mendelian heredity in analyzing the inheritance of quantitative characters in corn and later influenced hybridization techniques in tandem with Luther Burbank. Princeton University Press, paperback
18998vo., Sixth Edition, Fifty-Sixth Thousand, with folding diagram, neat contemporary inscription on half-title, endpapers and preliminary leaves (to Contents) lightly spotted; original green cloth, boards with Oxford frame in blind, gilt back, uncut, a remarkably bright, fresh, firm copy.
1982Hardcover, first edition of Dawkins' sequel to The Selfish Gene, and what is considered his principal contribution to evolutionary theory. Original green cloth boards and original dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket has minor edgewear, no other notable flaws. AD Used
1900rif. 48208Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1900. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 130, No 13. Titlepage to tome 130 a. pp. (809-) 864. (Entire issue offered). De Vries paper: pp. 845-847. Rather poor paperquality, fragile. Small nicks to margins of titlepage.
1900rif. 48208Paris Gauthier-Villars 1900. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 130 No 13. Titlepage to tome 130 a. pp. 809- 864. Entire issue offered. De Vries paper: pp. 845-847. Rather poor paperquality fragile. Small nicks to margins of titlepage. First appearance of a milestone paper in genetics being the "REDISCOVERY" OF MENDEL'S LAWS OF HEREDITY" - This paper together with the two other papers from the same year by Carl Correns and Erich Tschermak laid the foundations of a new scientific discipline that in 1906 was given the name "genetics" and less than a century later rose to become the leading science in Western society. This French announcement was published 4 days before his longer paper "Das Spaltungsgesetzt der Hybride" in which Mendel is mentioned.De Vries completed most of his hybridization experiments without knowing about Mendel's work. Based on his own results de Vries drew the same conclusions as Mendel. De Vries published his work in 1900 first in French then in German. In the French report there was no mention of Mendel but this was amended by de Vries in the German paper. It is possible that de Vries read Mendel's paper before he published his own and included Mendel's name in the later printing when he realized that other people also knew about Mendel's work. De Vries may have thought that his own conclusions were superior to Mendel's. "During the 1880s de Vries became interested in heredity. In 1889 he published Intracellular Pangenesis in which he critically reviewed previous research on inheritance and advanced the theory that elements in the nucleus ‘pangenes’ determine hereditary traits. To investigate his theories he began breeding plants in 1892 and by 1896 had obtained clear evidence for the segregation of characters in the offspring of crosses in 3:1 ratios. He delayed publishing these results proposing to include them in a larger book but in 1900 he came across the work of Gregor Mendel published 34 years earlier and announced his own findings. This stimulated both Karl Correns and Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg to publish their essentially similar observations." Oxford Dictionary of Scientists.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1900 B. - PMM 356 the note. unknown
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18868vo., Sixth Edition, Thirtieth Thousand, with folding diagram, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, boards with Oxford frame in blind, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, a remarkably bright, fresh, firm copy. The sixth edition is the last published in Darwin's lifetime and contains his final major corrections and revisions. It is the first edition with the title The Origin of Species, and includes among many other revisions a new chapter inserted to confute the views of the Catholic biologist St. George Mivart. There is a glossary, and the word 'evolution' is used in the text for the first time. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Freeman 423.
rif. 4216Snell was the co-recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the genetics of the mouse immune system which led to a better understanding of cancer cell behavior in humans. One of the leading authorities on the genetics of "transplant reaction" his work was key in making organ transplants possible. All of the offprints are from the library of L.C. Dunn of Columbia University. unknown
rif. 4216Snell was the co-recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the genetics of the mouse immune system which led to a better understanding of cancer cell behavior in humans. One of the leading authorities on the genetics of "transplant reaction" his work was key in making organ transplants possible. All of the offprints are from the library of L.C. Dunn of Columbia University. unknown books
1869rif. 023422New York: D. Appleton and Company 1869. Fourth American Edition First Printing . Brown Pebbled Cloth Gilt. Near Fine. Folding Chart. 116 Pp 116 - 121 117-425; 426-432 Supplement; 443-440; 2 Pp Ads At Rear. "A New Edition Revised And Augmented By The Author" Containing The Entire Fourth British Edition With Additions And Corrections From The 1869 British Fifth Edition Added As Asterisked Pages And In A Supplement At End Indicating Corrections/Insertions To Be Made Throughout The Fourth Edition To Update It To The Fifth Edition But Not Including Heading "Survival Of The Fittest" Which Occurred In That Edition. Catalog At End Beginning With Page 2 No Page One But Apparently As Bound And Issued Perhaps To Remove A Now Obsolete Listing For The Fourth Edition Of This Work Continuing With P. 3. Original Pebbled Brown Cloth Covers With No Wear No Fraying Or Tears Evenly Colored And Without The Usual Fading Gilt Bright But Now With Some Reddish Toning Original Yellow Endpapers With Solid Hinges Pages Square And Crisp. Previous Owner's Signature "G A. Hadley Sep 20Th 1869" In Pencil On Front Endpaper Possibly Dr. George A. Hadley Of Chicago Who Also Owned An 1871 Descent Of Man With His February 1887 Ownership Signature One Other Pencil Marginal Word In Same Hand No Other Marks No Bookplates. Very Light Dampstaining Along Part Of Foredge Of Pages And Endpapers Wider And Intruding A Little Into Page Block On About 100 Pages Near Center Of Book 2 1/2" X 1/2" To 1 1/2" Damp Spot On Top Edge Of Pages Near Foredge Small Losses Along Foredge Of Front Yellow Endpaper Rear Yellow Endpapers Partly Adhering And Have Not Been Separated. A Very Scarce Edition Apparently Issued For A Short Time Prior To The Regular 1870 American Printing Of The Fifth British Edition; "Darwin On Line" Shows 440 Pp. But States Same As 1863-1868 Editions And Makes No Mention Of The Asterisked Pages Or The Supplement For The Fifth Edition. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1882rif. 0159981882 - 1898: Various Publishers 1882. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. The Author's Personal Copies No Duplicates Of His Nineteenth Century Works On Paleontology And Related Areas Of Biology 127 Of His Published Writings Including Original Offprints Extracts Title Pages Manuscripts And Notes In German Or English With A Few Clippings And Photographs Laid In Loosely. Three Volumes Dark Brown Pebbled Cloth Over Brown Patterned Boards. Bindings Worn And Frayed Material Should Be Professionally Rebound With Archival Materials. His Obituary In The American Naturalist Sept 1898 Pp 717-718 Refers To A Total Output Of 143 Papers Being Reported By His Brother Which Possibly Includes Reprints And Translations As He Wrote In Both German And English And This Collection Appears Complete. Baur Was Last A Professor At The University Of Chicago 1892 -1898. Baur Wrote Extensively On Various Paleontological Topics. He Also Built On The Late Nineteenth Century Theory Of Evolution And Wrote Extensively On His Idea That Changes In Morphology Might Be Brought Out By A Change In Environment Including Nutrition Etc. Such That These Changed Characteristics Would Persist In Successive Generations So Long As The Changed Conditions Persisted For Which There Is Now Some Evidence For At Least Three Generations. He Cited Extensively To Personal Observations And Reports From Others. His Work Differs From Weizmann Etc. In That He Maintained That Changes In Environment Could Bring Out Changes In Morphology Without Changes In The Genetic Material Such Changes Persisting In Successive Generations When The Environmental Changes Also Persisted. In One Such 1891 Paper He Concludes With A Citation To Darwin's Letter To Wagner: "In My Opinion The Greatest Error Which I Have Committed Has Been Not Allowing Sufficient Weight To The Direct Action Of The Environment - I.E. Food Climate Etc. -Independently Of Natural Selection." Although Now Dismissed Some Because Of His Neo-Lamarckian Ideas His Departures From Rigorous Scientific Evidence In Genetics Is Perhaps Less Serious Than The Acceptance And Promotion Of The Ideas Of "Phlogiston" By Important Earlier Chemists And Of "Ether" By His Contemporaries Among Important Physicists; And The Emphasis Of The Neo-Lamarckians On Environmental Nutritional And Physiological Factors Is More In Keeping With Modern Understanding Of Individual Development Than The Emphasis Upon Purely Genetic Evolution Which Treats Only Classes Of Individuals By Arbitrary Groupings Into Classes Of Individuals . Complete Collections Of Original Manuscripts And Scientific Offprints From This Period Are Increasingly Uncommon In The Market. All Material In Excellent Condition Bound Into Three Volumes Bindings Very Worn. Various Publishers hardcover
1996rif. 34127Somerset New Jersey U.S.A.: John Wiley & Son Ltd. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- Choose us for the information you need. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction: concepts of antisocial behaviour of cause and of genetic influences 1 Issues in the search for candidate genes in mice as potential animal models of human aggression 21 Aggression from a developmental perspective: genes environments and interactions 45 A twin study of self-reported criminal behaviour 61 Heterogeneity among juvenile antisocial behaviours: findings from the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioural Development 76 Predisposition to criminality: Swedish adoption studies in retrospect 99 Assessing the role of genetics in crime using adoption cohorts 115 Direct analysis of candidate genes in impulsive behaviours 139 MAOA deficiency and abnormal behaviour: perspectives on an association 155 Serotonin in alcoholic violent offenders 168 Evolutionary adaptationism: another biological approach to criminal and antisocial behaviour 183 Chronic problems in understanding tribal violence and warfare 202 The implications for responsibility of possible genetic factors in the explanation of violence 237 Legal implications of genetics and crime research 248 Concluding remarks 265 Index of contributors 272 Subject index 274. -- DESCRIPTION: -- Papers presented at the symposium held at the Ciba Foundation in London February 14-16 1995. Multidisciplinary research on the genetic contributions to criminal and antisocial behavior for behavioral geneticists theorists neuroscientists philosophers and criminologists. -- Criminal and antisocial behaviour threaten cooperative social organization and each culture has developed methods to isolate and punish criminals. However criminal behaviour has not been eliminated in any culture and so it is rational to try to use scientific approaches to explain the origins and causes of criminal behaviour and to suggest ways of preventing crime or rehabilitating offenders. There has been extensive research on environmental causes of criminal behaviour: this book examines the evidence for genetic contributions. Twin and adoption studies suggest that there may be genetic contributions to some criminal behaviours. The data are examined in detail in this book which includes discussion of the methodological problems of disentangling genetic and environmental sources of variance in behaviour. In animals aggression is commonly an appropriate response to environmental stimuli: data from the relevant animal studies of the inheritance of aggressiveness are included in the book. There have been reports suggesting neuropharmacological abnormalities in violent offenders. These represent potential underlying mechanisms whereby genetic influences could be mediated. The recent evidence regarding brain and in particular neurotransmitter abnormalities is discussed. A heritable tendency to behave in a particular way would have significant implications for criminology particularly for rehabilitation strategies. Important issues also arise for moral philosophy. Separate chapters examine evolutionary and anthropological aspects of violence and warfare. The book is truly multidisciplinary and contains contributions from behavioural geneticists population geneticists evolutionary theorists neuroscientists philosophers and criminologists. -- with a bonus offer--; 520-Bockg; Bock Gregory; Ciba Foundation Jamie Goode Symposium on Genetics of Criminal and Antisocial Behaviour / BEHAVIOR Genetics of Criminal and Antisocial Behaviour / BEHAVIOR Papers presented at the symposium held at the Ciba Foundation in London February 1 . 1996. 0471957194 . John Wiley & Son Ltd hardcover
1996rif. 34165Somerset New Jersey U.S.A.: John Wiley & Son Ltd. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction: concepts of antisocial behaviour of cause and of genetic influences 1 Issues in the search for candidate genes in mice as potential animal models of human aggression 21 Aggression from a developmental perspective: genes environments and interactions 45 A twin study of self-reported criminal behaviour 61 Heterogeneity among juvenile antisocial behaviours: findings from the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioural Development 76 Predisposition to criminality: Swedish adoption studies in retrospect 99 Assessing the role of genetics in crime using adoption cohorts 115 Direct analysis of candidate genes in impulsive behaviours 139 MAOA deficiency and abnormal behaviour: perspectives on an association 155 Serotonin in alcoholic violent offenders 168 Evolutionary adaptationism: another biological approach to criminal and antisocial behaviour 183 Chronic problems in understanding tribal violence and warfare 202 The implications for responsibility of possible genetic factors in the explanation of violence 237 Legal implications of genetics and crime research 248 Concluding remarks 265 Index of contributors 272 Subject index 274. -- DESCRIPTION: -- Univ. Of Maryland. An explanation of the debate concerning behavioral genetics in particular the practice of genetic research into criminal behavior. Examines the broader issues surrounding the debate such as causation and moral responsibility. For scholars philosophers and scientists. -- This volume brings together a group of essays by leading philosophers of science ethicists and legal scholars commissioned for an important and controversial conference on genetics and crime. The essays address basic conceptual methodological and ethical issues raised by genetic research on criminal behavior but largely ignored in the public debate. They explore the complexities in tracing any genetic influence on criminal violent or antisocial behavior the varieties of interpretation to which evidence of such influences is subject and the relevance of such influences to the moral and legal appraisal of criminal conduct. The volume provides a critical overview of the assumptions methods and findings of recent behavioral genetics. -- with a bonus offer--; H-520-Bock2; Bock Gregory; Ciba Foundation Jamie Goode Symposium on Genetics of Criminal and Antisocial Behaviour; Ciba Foundation; Symposium on Genetics of Criminal and Antisocial Behaviour 1995 Ciba Cor Genetics of Criminal and Antisocial Behaviour Univ. of Ma . 1996. 0471957194 . John Wiley & Son Ltd hardcover
