Staffan Müller-Wille; Christina Brandt . Heredity Explored: Between Public Domain and Experimental Science, 1850–1930. viii + 472 pp., figs., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2016. $49.99 [Book Review]

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