The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity

In The Logic of Life Fran�ois 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.

• Author
• François Jacob

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 368

• Publisher
• Princeton University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780691000428

• Genres
• science, biology, philosophy

• Release date
• 1993