New Biology, vols 1-31

SCARCE COMPLETE RUN OF ALL 31 ISSUES OF NEW BIOLOGY--SPANNING THE POSTWAR RISE OF CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY.

31 volumes, 7 inches tall, color printed paper covers, light wear to covers, bindings tight, pages age-toned, unmarked, very good minus, all printed. Editorial, vol 31: Swan Song of a Penguin: "This is to be the last number of Penguin New Biology. For fifteen years we have tried to perform a particular function in the diffusion of biological knowledge. The dissemination of scientific information is a process as complicated in variety and subtlety of interrelationships as the food chains that develop and maintain an oak tree, a herring, or a thinking human brain with sunshine and a watery mixture of elements as raw materials. The information that pours out of the research laboratories at the rate of some hundreds of papers a day needs digesting and processing in many ways before it can achieve its maximum usefulness to those who ought to benefit from it - whether research worker or ordinary citizen. Selections, summaries, analyses, interpretations must be guided by many different aims. for different, and for changing people. It was a particular niche in this food chain that we hoped to fill. Our idea was not that we should attempt the very important task of introducing biology to those who know nothing about it. We intended to go thoroughly into our subjects, and it seemed to us that no periodical which works on the assumption that every reader's mind is a blank can hope to do this. But we made another assumption: that with the expansion of science after the war we should be assured of enough readers to keep us going at our chosen level. This last assumption has turned out to be wrong. We would be poor biologists if we did not recognize that evolution goes in fits and starts, following no single path, but with many blind ends, depending for ultimate advance on large numbers and variety in which selection can work." The work contains many isotype charts (each identified by Isotype Institute logo). Isotype (International System of TYpographic Picture Education) is a method of showing social, technological, biological and historical connections in pictorial form, developed in Vienna between 1925 and 1934.

MICHAEL ABERCROMBIE (1912 1979) was first editor of the Journal of Embryology and Experimental Morphology. For most readers of the Journal, Abercrombie will be best known as an active research worker and the director of a great research laboratory. However, he was also an important figure in each of several other fields - but notably as a popularizer of science. The periodical Penguin New Biology (offered here), which he and his wife, M. L. Johnson, founded and jointly edited was perhaps his most significant enterprise in this genre. The Penguin Dictionary of Biology, of which he was one author, was equally successful. Abercrombie's work as an experimental embryologist began when he joined C. H. Waddington in exploring the properties of the avian organizer. Soon afterwards the outbreak of war turned him to work, inspired by J. Z. Young, on Wallerian nerve degeneration and wound healing. Although his interest in avian embryology persisted, work on the social behavior of cells - normal and neoplastic - became a preoccupation, and his analysis of contact inhibition of movement was to prove a turning point in modern cell biology. Abercrombie's contributions to cell morphology, cell population dynamics and cell behavior were characterized by his search for accurate quantitative measures of the processes he was studying.

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Publisher: Penguin Books

Year: 1945-1960

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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