François Jacob

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The Logic of Life: A History of HeredityPaperback, 9 May 1993

The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity
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Part of Series
Princeton Science Library (Paperback)
Print Length
368 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
9 May 1993
ISBN-10
0691000425
ISBN-13
9780691000428

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"The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written."--Michel Foucault

Nobel Prize-winning scientist François Jacob's The Logic of Life is a landmark book in the history of biology and science. Focusing on heredity, which Jacob 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 (especially cells), evolution, genes, and DNA and other molecules--each have their own power but also limitations. Fundamentally challenging how the history of biology is told, much as Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions did for the history of science as a whole, The Logic of Life has greatly influenced the way scientists and historians view the past, present, and future of biology.

Product Details

Author:
François Jacob
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
9 May 1993
Dimensions:
21.51 x 13.49 x 2.26 cm
ISBN-10:
0691000425
ISBN-13:
9780691000428
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
368
Weight:
426.38 gm

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