The logic of life : a history of heredity / by François Jacob ; translated by Betty E. Spillmann.

  • Jacob, François, 1920-2013.
Date:
[1974]
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Logique du vivant. English

Description

In The Logic of Life François 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.

Publication/Creation

New York : Pantheon Books, [1974]

Physical description

viii, 348 pages ; 22 cm

Contributors

Edition

[1st American ed.].

Notes

Translation of La logique du vivant.
Copy 1. Donor: Emeritus Professor Alan E. H. Emery.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The bisible structure -- Organization -- Time -- The gene -- The molecule.

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ISBN

  • 0394472462
  • 9780394472461