The logic of life : a history of heredity / François Jacob ; translated by Betty E. Spillmann ; with a new foreword by Matthew Cobb.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Princeton science libraryPublisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: New Princeton Science Library editionDescription: xxii, 348 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780691182841
- 576.509 23 JAC
- QH428 .J313 2022
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index.
Introduction: the programme -- The visible structure -- Organization -- Time -- The gene -- The molecule -- Conclusion: the integron.
This book discusses the history of biology and science. Focusing on heredity, which Jacobs 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 such as cells, evolution, genes, and DNA and other molecules--each have their own power but also limitations.
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