Memoarer & biografier
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
Jonathan Weiner
Häftad
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Jonathan Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch, brings his brilliant reporting skills to the story of Seymour Benzer, the Brooklyn-born maverick scientist whose studies of genetics and experiments with fruit fly genes have helped revolutionize our knowledge of the connections between DNA and behavior -- both animal and human.
How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's Fly Rooms at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer and his associates are in the process of finding answers, often astonishing ones, to these questions. Part biography, part thrilling scientific detective story, Time, Love, Memory forcefully demonstrates how Benzer's studies are changing our world view -- and even our lives.
- Format: Häftad
- ISBN: 9780679763901
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 320
- Utgivningsdatum: 2000-04-01
- Förlag: Vintage