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FULL-TEXT OF ORIGINAL PAPERS, NINETEENTH CENTURY ONWARDS
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purpose of these pages is to provide original texts of papers which I deem critical to the
understanding of some major problems in the biomedical sciences. Many important papers,
often neglected by modern readers, date from the 19th century. The original versions are
not always well presented (small text, no headings, etc.). Modern technology allows these
relatively inaccessible texts to be made available to a world audience in an attractive,
searchable, format. To the extent that there is a hidden agenda, it is to show that, for the biological sciences, the key concepts were advanced in the 19th century. Ewald Hering and Samuel Butler in the 1870s introduced the idea of heredity as information transfer and, building on Darwin's "pangens", De Vries (1889) postulated differential gene expression and transfer of information from nucleus to cytoplasm. This anticipated the discovery of messenger RNA in the 1950s. Romanes solved speciation in 1886 and we are only just beginning to catch up. We have been so busy filling in the details that we have forgotten about the big picture. This theme is explored more fully in my books:
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Copyright. The material on these pages, with the exception of items whose copyright is held by various publi shing houses (see below) is the copyright © of D. R. Forsdyke. You are welcome to use these materials, without my expressed permission. It would be appreciated if you would acknowledge this page if you take material from it.
Acknowledgements. Some of the material on the pages listed above has been published in various journals, which are the only definitive repositories of the content that has been certified and accepted after peer review. Copyright and all rights therein are retained by the associated publi shing houses. Single copies may be made for personal use, but multiple copying or reposting requires explicit permission of the appropriate publi shing house. Acad emic Press offers on-line access to all or part of some of these papers through "ID-EAL"at http://www.idealibrary.com. Else-vier offers a similar facility Click here. See also Else-vier's Gene Homepage (Click Here). Copyrights eventually expire and it may be safely assumed that the nineteenth century papers on these pages may be freely copied.
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This page was established in 1998 and was last edited 16 January, 2007 by Donald Forsdyke. The evolution of this and associated pages, with successive updates since circa 1998, may be examined by going to the Internet Archives (Click Here). A "snapshot" of the pages was taken in February 2005 and may be examined in the Q-Space Archive (Click Here).
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