In The Logic of Life François Jacob looks at the way our understanding of biology has changed since the sixteenth century. He describes four fundamental turning points in the perception of the structure of living things: the discoveries of the functions of organs, cells, chromosomes and genes, and DNA.
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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, The New Yorker
[A] lucid account of man's changing ideas about heredity. [It] seizes and stimulates the imagination. -- Arnold W. Ravin, Science
François Jacob, who won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work on genetics, has written an unusual and illuminating history of his discipline. It is not so much a history of science as a history of the ideas of science. -- Edward Edelson, Washington Post Book World
[One of] the most important discussions yet published of the recent advances in molecular biology. . . . -- The Times Literary Supplement
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Original Language: French
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In 1573, in the book entitled Des Monstres et Prodiges which completed his treatise on generation, Ambroise Pare observed: 'Nature always tries to create its own likeness: a lamb with a pig's head was once seen because the ewe had been covered by a boar.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
combinative system, genetic programme, spermatic fluid, living particles, whole living world, genetic text, internal medium, continuous web Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In 1573, in the book entitled Des Monstres et Prodiges which completed his treatise on generation, Ambroise Pare observed: 'Nature always tries to create its own likeness: a lamb with a pig's head was once seen because the ewe had been covered by a boar.' Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
combinative system, genetic programme, spermatic fluid, living particles, whole living world, genetic text, internal medium, continuous web Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Natural Selection (Phoenix 60p paperbacks) by Charles Darwin on page 170, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- CELL IN DEVELOPMENT & HEREDITY (Genes, Cells, and Organisms) by Edmund B. Wilson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Who Wrote the Book of Life?: A History of the Genetic Code (Writing Science) by Lily Kay on 12 pages
- Genes and the Agents of Life: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences Biology by Robert A. Wilson on 4 pages
- Science as a Questioning Process: by N Sanitt on 4 pages
- Genesis: The Evolution of Biology by Jan Sapp on 4 pages
- Between Experience and Metaphysics: Philosophical Problems of the Evolution of Science (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science) by S. Amsterdamski on page 22, and Back Matter
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