The Logic of Life A History of Heredity - Princeton Science Library

"The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written."-Michel FoucaultNobel Prize-winning scientist François Jacob's The Logic of Life is a landmark book in the history of biology and science. Focusing on heredity, which Jacob considers the fundamental feature of living things, he shows how, since the sixteenth century, the scientific understanding of inherited traits has moved not in a linear, progressive way, from error to truth, but instead through a series of frameworks. He reveals how these successive interpretive approaches-focusing on visible structures, internal structures (especially cells), evolution, genes, and DNA and other molecules-each have their own power but also limitations. Fundamentally challenging how the history of biology is told, much as Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions did for the history of science as a whole, The Logic of Life has greatly influenced the way scientists and historians view the past, present, and future of biology.

ISBN:	9780691182841
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Published date:	02 Aug 2022
DEWEY:	576.509
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	376
Weight:	390g
Height:	140mm
Width:	215mm
Spine width:	30mm

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