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Major biological discoveries since the early-seventeenth century are related to changing views on man's place in the universe and the nature of life
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İOne of¨ the most important discussions yet published of the recent advances in molecular biology. . . .
İA¨ lucid account of man's changing ideas about heredity. İIt¨ seizes and stimulates the imagination. -- Arnold W. Ravin "Science"
Franç ois 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.
Fran?ois 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.
Franois 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
[One of] the most important discussions yet published of the recent advances in molecular biology. . . . -- "The Times Literary Supplement
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 "
Fran ois 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 "
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İA¨ lucid account of man's changing ideas about heredity. İIt¨ seizes and stimulates the imagination. -- Arnold W. Ravin "Science"
Franç ois 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.
Fran?ois 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.
Franois 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
[One of] the most important discussions yet published of the recent advances in molecular biology. . . . -- "The Times Literary Supplement
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 "
Fran ois 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 "
"The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written."--Michel Foucault
"A great story. . . . A compact encyclopedia of biology, it manages to convey, for all the weight of its content, a sense of continual excitement and wonderment."--Lewis Thomas, author of The Lives of a Cell
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- PublisherRandom House USA Inc
- Publication date1982
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