Mutation : the history of an idea from Darwin to genomics / Elof Axel Carlson.

Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, [2011], ©2011.

viii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A brief overview of the concept of mutation -- Ideas of mutation before there was a Mendelian basis for genetics -- Cytological and Mendelian aspects of mutation -- The fly lab redefines mutation -- Radiation and the analysis of mutation by mutagenesis -- Using biochemical approaches to study mutation -- Mutation in relation to gene structure -- Mutation in relation to evolution -- Mutation in relation to genetic engineering -- Mutation in relation to society -- Mutation in relation to history and philosophy of science.