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The Logic of Life

By Francois Jacob

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0691000425, 9780691000428
LCC
QH428 .J313 1993
Open Library ID
OL1730895M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3165084 bytes)
Edition
New edition
Pages
357\357
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

In The Logic of Life Franois Jacob looks at the way our understanding of biology has changed since the sixteenth century. He describes four fundamental turning points in the perception of the structure of living things: the discoveries of the functions of organs, cells, chromosomes and genes, and DNA.

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