Statue Within

Jacob, François

Unwin Hyman

From Publishers Weekly\nA compilation of three lectures on biology and evolution by Nobel laureate Jacob. 
Copyright 1994 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

The possible and the actual (The Jessie and John Danz lectures)

University of Washington Press

Possible and Actual (Jessie & John Danz Lectures)

Literature & Fiction

In The Logic of Life Franois 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.

The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity

Pantheon Books

The Possible and the Actual (Pantheon's Asia Library) [paperback] Jacob, Francois [Jan 12, 1982]

THE POSSIBLE AND THE ACTUAL

Science & Math

Pantheon

Major biological discoveries since the early-seventeenth century are related to changing views on man's place in the universe and the nature of life

THE LOGIC OF LIFE

Biological Sciences

Major biological discoveries since the early-seventeenth century are related to changing views on man's place in the universe and the nature of life

The logic of life: A history of heredity

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Vintage Books

Who could have guessed that the lowly fruit fly might hold the key for decoding heredity? Or that the mouse might one day disclose astonishing evolutionary secrets? In a book infused with wisdom, wonder, and a healthy dose of wry skepticism, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist François Jacob walks us through the surprising ways of science, particularly the science of biology, in this century. Of Flies, Mice, and Men is at once a work of history, a social study of the role of scientists in the modern world, and a cautionary tale of the bumbling and brilliance, imagination and luck, that attend scientific discovery. A book about molecules, reproduction, and evolutionary tinkering, it is also about the way biologists work, and how they contemplate beauty and truth, good and evil. 
 Animated with anecdotes from Greek mythology, literature, episodes from the history of science, and personal experience, Of Flies, Mice, and Men tells the story of how the marvelous discoveries of molecular and developmental biology are transforming our understanding of who we are and where we came from. In particular, Jacob scrutinizes the place of the scientist in society. Alternately cast as the soothsayer Tiresias, the conscienceless inventor Daedalus, or Prometheus, conveyer of dangerous knowledge, the scientist in our day must instead adopt the role of truthteller, Jacob suggests. And the crucial truth that molecular biology teaches is the one he elaborates with great clarity and grace in this book: that all animals are made of the same building blocks, by a combinatorial system that always rearranges the same elements according to new forms.

Of Flies, Mice, and Men

Harvard University Press

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.

The Logic of Life

Princeton University Press

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Statue Within

The possible and the actual (The Jessie and John Danz lectures)

Possible and Actual (Jessie & John Danz Lectures)

The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity

THE POSSIBLE AND THE ACTUAL

THE LOGIC OF LIFE

The logic of life: A history of heredity

Of Flies, Mice, and Men

Of Flies, Mice, and Men

The Logic of Life