TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacob,François
AU  - Spillmann,Betty E.
AU  - Cobb,Matthew
TI  - The logic of life: a history of heredity 
T2  - Princeton science library
SN  - 9780691182841
AV  - QH428 .J313 2022
U1  - 576.509 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Genetics
KW  - History
KW  - Biology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - fast
KW  - Heredity
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-337) and index; Introduction: the programme -- The visible structure -- Organization -- Time -- The gene -- The molecule -- Conclusion: the integron
N2  - 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
ER  -