Jacob, François,  1920-2013, <br/><br/>
The logic of life :  a history of heredity / 
François Jacob ; translated by Betty E. Spillmann ; with a new foreword by Matthew Cobb. 
 - New Princeton Science Library edition. 
 - xxii, 348 pages ;  22 cm. 
 - Princeton science library .
 - Princeton science library. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: the programme -- The visible structure -- Organization -- Time -- The gene -- The molecule -- Conclusion: the integron. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691182841 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2021948908 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBC265267  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>020551114  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Genetics--History.<br/>Biology--History.<br/>Biology--Philosophy--History.<br/>Genetics.<br/>Heredity.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QH428  / .J313 2022 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>576.509  / JAC