LOGIC OF LIFE : A History of Heredity / translated by Betty E. Spillmann ; with a new preface by the Author

by Jacob, François

First Princeton Paperback Printing, 1993

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Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1993 x, 348 p. ; 22 cm. Series: Princeton science library. Originally published: London : Allen Lane, 1973. Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-[337]) and index. In "The Logic of Life" Francois 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. NF condition [softcover]. First Princeton Paperback Printing, 1993. Soft Cover. Like New.

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