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With his colleague and life-long friend Jeffrey J.W. Baker, Gar wrote a biology textbook I Matter, Energy, and Life i , which appeared first in 1965 as a result of that teaching and went through four editions (Allen and Baker [4]). In the northern summer of 2022, Garland E. Allen worked to complete his book on the history of twentieth century genetics. Gar reported that it was his reading of Marx that led him to realize the importance of agriculture for understanding genetics, as he discusses in his chapter on the genetics of breeding corn and chickens. He framed the book in terms of a move in the various studies of life sciences from natural history and morphology to experimental science and a more coordinated "life science" rather than "life sciences.". [Extracted from the article] |
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