@article{1478461,
      recid = {1478461},
      author = {Harman, Oren Solomon, },
      title = {The Man Who Invented the Chromosome : A Life of Cyril  Darlington /},
      pages = {1 online resource (341 p.)},
      abstract = {Born by mistake, or connivance, to struggling parents in a  small Lancashire cotton town in 1903, an uninspired  Darlington inadvertently escaped the obscurity of farming  life and rose instead, against all odds, to become within a  few short years the world's greatest expert on chromosomes,  and one of the most penetrating biological thinkers of the  twentieth century. Harman follows Darlington's path from  bleak prospects to world fame, showing how, within the most  miniscule of worlds, he sought answers to the biggest  questions--how species originate, how variation occurs, how  Nature, both blind and foreboding, random and insightful,  makes her way from deep past to unknown future. But  Darlington did not stop there: Chromosomes held within  their tiny confines untold, dark truths about man and his  culture. This passionate conviction led the once famed  Darlington down a path of rebuke, isolation, and finally  obscurity. As The Man Who Invented the Chromosome unfolds  Darlington's forgotten tale--the Nazi atrocities, the Cold  War, the crackpot Lysenko, the molecular revolution,  eugenics, Civil Rights, the welfare state, the changing  views of man's place in nature, biological determinism--all  were interconnected. Just as Darlington's work provoked him  to ask questions about the link between biology and  culture, his life raises fundamental questions about the  link between science and society.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478461},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674038332},
}