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The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity »

Authors: Francois Jacob, Betty E. Spillmann
ISBN-13: 9780691000428, ISBN-10: 0691000425
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: April 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Francois Jacob

Book Synopsis

"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

Arnold W. Ravin - Science

[A] lucid account of man's changing ideas about heredity. [It] seizes and stimulates the imagination.

	Preface
	Introduction: The Programme	1
1	The Visible Structure	19
	Generation	20
	Deciphering Nature	28
	Mechanism	32
	Species	44
	Preformation	52
	Heredity	67
2	Organization	74
	Memory and Heredity	75
	The Hidden Architecture	82
	Life	88
	The Chemistry of Life	92
	The Plan of Organization	100
	The Cell	111
3	Time	130
	Cataclysms	131
	Transformations	142
	Fossils	152
	Evolution	160
4	The Gene	178
	Experimentation	180
	Statistical Analysis	192
	The Birth of Genetics	201
	The Dance of the Chromosomes	209
	Enzymes	226
5	The Molecule	247
	Macromolecules	249
	Micro-organisms	260
	The Message	267
	Regulation	279
	Copy and Error	286
	Conclusion: The Integron	299
	Notes	325
	Index	339