The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity

by François Jacob

Book Overview

"The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written."--Michel Foucault

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Fran ois 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691000425
• ISBN13: 9780691000428
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.5"