A Dictionary of Biology

FIRST EDITION: PUBLISHED BEFORE THE DISCOVERY OF DNA, A DICTIONARY THAT WENT THROUGH 12 EDITIONS IN 53 YEARS.

7 inches tall paperback, color printed covers, 246 pp, [11 pp publisher's advertisements]. Light wear to covers, browning to page edges, unmarked. Very good minus in custom archival mylar cover.

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, 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 (offered here), 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: 1951

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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