The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity
Publishing Details
The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity
By (Author) Franois Jacob
Translated by Betty E. Spillmann
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
17th July 1993
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
575.1
Physical Properties
368
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
397g
Description
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.
Reviews
"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 "Francois 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
Author Bio
Francois Jacob (19202013) was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1965 and was one of the world's leading molecular biologists.
