coragyps writes:
Mick, you evil person! Now I have another free online journal to eat up all my hours!!
Many journals have recently started to make their old issues available online, but as far as I know
Genetics is the only one that has bothered to go back as far as 1916.
Here's the first paragraph of the first paper published in January 1916, first ever issue of
Genetics
quote:
There has been a long series of observations and experiments which
has led more and more definitely to the conclusion that the chromosomes
are the bearers of the hereditary materiak2 It was observed that male
and female contribute equally to the inheritance of the offspring, and yet
the contribution of the male consists of little more than a nucleus. That inheritance is a function of the nucleus rather than of the cytoplasm is
shown by many embryological and cytological facts. Attention was next
narrowed to the chromatin and chromosomes. Embryological experiments
showed that the chromosomes are qualitatively different and that
a full complement is essential to normal development. The increasing
cytological knowledge of mitotic division and of gametogenesis made it
clear that the chromosomes were qualified to serve as the material basis
of heredity.
We've definitely come a long way! It always warms my heart to know that such articles were written in 1916, when the religious weirdos were even stronger than they are today! Truth will out!
Mick
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