The Logic of Life
A History of Heredity
$49.44
- Paperback
376 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2022
Summary
Focusing on heredity, which Jacob considers the fundamental feature of living things, he shows how, since the sixteenth century, the scientific understanding of inherited traits has moved not in a linear, progressive way, from error to truth, but instead through a series of frameworks. He reveals how these successive interpretive approaches—focusing on visible structures, internal structures (especially cells), evolution, genes, and DNA and other molecules—each have their own power but also l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691182841 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691182841 |
| Author: | Matthew Cobb, François Jacob |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library |
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Critics Review
“Brilliant… . One thing the book reveals to the general reader is the interconnection of the development of biological ideas with the development of the rest of science and technology.”—Jeremy Bernstein, New Yorker
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[A] lucid account of man’s changing ideas about heredity… . It seizes and stimulates the imagination.
”—Arnold W. Ravin, Science“An unusual and illuminating history.”—Edward Edelson, Washington Post Book World
Matthew Cobb
François Jacob (1920–2013) was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1965 and was one of the world’s leading molecular biologists.
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