Author: Clifford Smyth
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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The Literary Digest International Book Review
Author: Clifford Smyth
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Literary Digest: a Repository of Contemporaneous Thought and Research as Presented in the Periodical Literature of the World
Author: Edward Jewitt Wheeler
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Literary Digest International Book Review
Author: Clifford Smyth
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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Literary Digest
Author:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 1244
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The Literary Digest
Digest; Review of Reviews Incorporating Literary Digest
HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS
Author: KATE LOUISE ROBERTS
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
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Languages : en
Pages : 1422
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Forum and Century
Forum and Column Review
The Century of the Gene
Author: Evelyn Fox KELLER
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039432
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology’s progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain. Keller shows us that the very successes that have stirred our imagination have also radically undermined the primacy of the gene—word and object—as the core explanatory concept of heredity and development. She argues that we need a new vocabulary that includes concepts such as robustness, fidelity, and evolvability. But more than a new vocabulary, a new awareness is absolutely crucial: that understanding the components of a system (be they individual genes, proteins, or even molecules) may tell us little about the interactions among these components. With the Human Genome Project nearing its first and most publicized goal, biologists are coming to realize that they have reached not the end of biology but the beginning of a new era. Indeed, Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era, this time in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674039432
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biology’s progress from gene to genome in one hundred years, The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain. Keller shows us that the very successes that have stirred our imagination have also radically undermined the primacy of the gene—word and object—as the core explanatory concept of heredity and development. She argues that we need a new vocabulary that includes concepts such as robustness, fidelity, and evolvability. But more than a new vocabulary, a new awareness is absolutely crucial: that understanding the components of a system (be they individual genes, proteins, or even molecules) may tell us little about the interactions among these components. With the Human Genome Project nearing its first and most publicized goal, biologists are coming to realize that they have reached not the end of biology but the beginning of a new era. Indeed, Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era, this time in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life.