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"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, New Yorker
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[A] lucid account of man’s changing ideas about heredity. . . . It seizes and stimulates the imagination.

"---Arnold W. Ravin, Science
"An unusual and illuminating history."---Edward Edelson, Washington Post Book World

The Logic of Life

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 2 August 2022
      ISBN-13 9780691182841
      978-0691182841
      ISBN-10 0691182841
      Also in:
      Science & Nature Molecular biology

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      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "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, New Yorker
      "

      [A] lucid account of man’s changing ideas about heredity. . . . It seizes and stimulates the imagination.

      "---Arnold W. Ravin, Science
      "An unusual and illuminating history."---Edward Edelson, Washington Post Book World

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