Author: Lewis, E. B.
Title: Pseudoallelism and gene evolution. In: Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology XVI. Genes and mutations.
Description: Cold Spring Harbor NY, The Biological Laboratory, 1951. 4to. 521 pp., two plates [Lewis'paper on pp. 159-174, with 6 figures]. Original red buckram with gilt title on the spine. = The American geneticist Edward B. Lewis (1918-2004) received his PhD from Caltech, where he studied under Alfred Sturtevant. He founded the field of developmental genetics with his pioneering work with Drosophila, for which he was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Medicine. We offer the complete vol. 16. It also includes contributions by Stephens, Bonner and Schultz on evolution of the gene. The plates (frontispiece recto and verso) show snapshots of the symposium and its participants, including Lewis. Small library stamp in the top margin of the front free endpaper recto, library pocket on rear pastedowbn, otherwise a very good, unmarked copy.

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