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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: François Jacob , Betty E. SpillmannPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.397kg ISBN: 9780691000428ISBN 10: 0691000425 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 09 May 1993 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Programme11The Visible Structure19Generation20Deciphering Nature28Mechanism32Species44Preformation52Heredity672Organization74Memory and Heredity75The Hidden Architecture82Life88The Chemistry of Life92The Plan of Organization100The Cell1113Time130Cataclysms131Transformations142Fossils152Evolution1604The Gene178Experimentation180Statistical Analysis192The Birth of Genetics201The Dance of the Chromosomes209Enzymes2265The Molecule247Macromolecules249Micro-organisms260The Message267Regulation279Copy and Error286Conclusion: The Integron299Notes325Index339ReviewsBrilliant... One thing the book reveals to the general reader is the interconnection of the development of biological ideas with the development of the rest of science and technology. -- Jeremy Bernstein The New Yorker [A] lucid account of man's changing ideas about heredity. [It] seizes and stimulates the imagination. -- Arnold W. Ravin Science Francois Jacob, who won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work on genetics, has written an unusual and illuminating history of his discipline. It is not so much a history of science as a history of the ideas of science. -- Edward Edelson Washington Post Book World [One of] the most important discussions yet published of the recent advances in molecular biology... The Times Literary Supplement Brilliant... One thing the book reveals to the general reader is the interconnection of the development of biological ideas with the development of the rest of science and technology. -- Jeremy Bernstein, The New Yorker [A] lucid account of man's changing ideas about heredity. [It] seizes and stimulates the imagination. -- Arnold W. Ravin, Science Francois Jacob, who won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for his work on genetics, has written an unusual and illuminating history of his discipline. It is not so much a history of science as a history of the ideas of science. -- Edward Edelson, Washington Post Book World [One of] the most important discussions yet published of the recent advances in molecular biology... -- The Times Literary Supplement When you consider that it once took such wild unlikelihoods as a pig-headed sheep to evoke an explanation of biological inheritance, you begin to see the potential fascination of the subject. Jacob, who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for medicine with Jacques Monod, fulfills that potential on a grand scale, combining something of the popular liveliness of a book like Rats, Lice and History with the serious thematic and contextual approach that earmarks the best recent intellectual history - for that really is what he is writing. The evolution of the 16th century concept of generation into our present molecular understanding of heredity is taken as a demonstration of the processes of thought as a cultural and historical phenomenon, which will be accelerated along some lines and inhibited in others according to the devices available at any given time. Thus, instead of isolating ancestral ideas, Jacob concentrates on the acquisition, over four centuries, of a suitable intellectual apparatus (mechanical apparatus is relegated to the background) - classification, methods of analysis and experimentation, and, most especially, potentiating theories, which were shared among all the sciences and responsive to suggestions from society at large, 19th-century horticulture and statistical physics, for example, proving more important in the long run than, say, Lamark and his premonitory ilk. The main theoretical tributaries, and their inherent obstacles, are discussed in more or less chronological lectures, which are perhaps the most exquisite application to date of Kuhn's paradigm of scientific revolutions. This is not for beginners, but near-beginners and sophisticates both will propel themselves through provided they have any interest at all in culture, history or science, and not necessarily in genetics. Notes. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationFranois Jacob (19202013) was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1965 and was one of the world's leading molecular biologists. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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