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The Logic of Life : A History of Heredity ([New ed.])

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In The Logic of Life Francois 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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Princeton University Press
0691000425 / 9780691000428
Paperback
576.509
08/07/2011
United States
English
x, 348 p.
22 cm
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Previous ed. of this translation: published as The logic of living systems. London: Allen Lane, 1973.
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"
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" PSAK Genetics (non-medical)