List of books by Thomas Hunt Morgan
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This is a list of books and monographs by the American geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan
. Morgan produced 22 books on embryology
, genetics and evolution. Books are in order by date. Three of Morgan's co-authors have their own articles: Calvin Bridges
, Alfred Sturtevant
and Hermann Joseph Muller
.
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries relating the role the chromosome plays in heredity.Morgan received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in zoology...
. Morgan produced 22 books on embryology
Embryology
Embryology is a science which is about the development of an embryo from the fertilization of the ovum to the fetus stage...
, genetics and evolution. Books are in order by date. Three of Morgan's co-authors have their own articles: Calvin Bridges
Calvin Bridges
Calvin Blackman Bridges was an American scientist, known for his contributions to the field of genetics. Along with Alfred Sturtevant and H.J. Muller, Bridges was part of the famous fly room of Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia University.Bridges wrote a masterful Ph.D...
, Alfred Sturtevant
Alfred Sturtevant
Alfred Henry Sturtevant was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1913. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan...
and Hermann Joseph Muller
Hermann Joseph Muller
Hermann Joseph Muller was an American geneticist, educator, and Nobel laureate best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation as well as his outspoken political beliefs...
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- The Development of the Frog's Egg: An Introduction to Experimental Embryology, New York: Macmillan, 1897. Full text online at http://books.google.com/books?id=1BoHYpGDBmQC&dq=development+of+the+frog%27s+egg+morgan&psp=1.
- Regeneration Columbia University Biological Series, New York: Macmillan, 1901. Full text online at http://books.google.com/books?id=MtYKAAAAIAAJ&dq=regeneration+morgan.
- Evolution and Adaptation, New York: Macmillan, 1903. Full text online at http://books.google.com/books?id=K90wAAAAMAAJ&dq=evolution+adaptation+morgan.
- Experimental Zoology, New York: Macmillan, 1907
- Heredity and Sex, New York: Columbia University Press, 1913. Full text online at http://books.google.com/books?id=kpgZAAAAIAAJ&dq=thomas+hunt+morgan.
- The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity, with A.H. Sturtevant, H.J. Muller and C.B. Bridges, New York:Henry Holt, 1915. Revised and re-issued in 1923. Full text online at http://books.google.com/books?id=GZEEAAAAYAAJ&dq=mechanism+of+mendelian+heredity+morgan.
- A Critique of the Theory of Evolution, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1916. Full text online at http://books.google.com/books?id=VhMAAAAAYAAJ&dq=thomas+hunt+morgan.
- Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila, with C.B. Bridges, Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1916. Full text online at http://books.google.com/books?id=JNQGAAAAYAAJ&dq=thomas+hunt+morgan&ei=5XYZR9qQD5PM6ALzpdWTBQ.
- The Genetic and the Operative Evidence of Relating to Secondary Sexual Characteristics, Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1919
- The Physical Basis of Heredity, Monographs on Experimental Biology, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1919. Full text online at http://books.google.com/books?id=qLbRYcb9M_gC&dq=thomas+hunt+morgan+physical+basis+heredity.
- Contributions to the Genetics of Drosophila Melanogaster, with A.H.Sturtevant and C.B.Bridges: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1919.
- Some Possible Bearings of Genetics on Pathology, Lancaster PA: New Era Printing Co., 1922
- The Third-Chromosome Group of Mutant Characters of Drosophila melanogaster, with C.B. Bridges, Washington DC: Carnegie Institution, 1923
- Laboratory Directions for and Elementary Course in Genetics, with H.J. Muller, A.H. Sturtevant and C.B. Bridges, New York: Henry Holt, 1923
- Human Inheritance, Pittsburgh:University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1924
- Evolution and Genetics, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1925
- The Theory of the Gene, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926
- Genetics and the Physiology of Development, Woods Hole: Marine Biological Laboratory, 1926
- Experimental Embryology, New York: Columbia University Press, 1927
- What is Darwinism?, New York: W.H. Norton, 1929
- The Scientific Basis of Evolution, New York: W.H. Norton, 1932
- Embryology and Genetics, New York: Columbia University Press, 1934