Evelyn Fox Keller's The Century of the Gene PDF

By Evelyn Fox Keller

ISBN-10: 0674003721

ISBN-13: 9780674003729

ISBN-10: 0674008251

ISBN-13: 9780674008250

In a e-book that can provide to alter the way in which we expect and speak about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, considered one of our such a lot talented historians and philosophers of technological know-how, offers a robust, profound research of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology within the 20th century, the century of the gene. not only a chronicle of biologyx{2019}s development from gene to genome in a single hundred years, The Century of the Gene additionally calls our realization to the excellent methods those advances problem the everyday photograph of the gene such a lot folks nonetheless entertain.Keller indicates us that the very successes that experience stirred our mind's eye have additionally considerably undermined the primacy of the genex{2015}word and objectx{2015}as the center explanatory idea of heredity and improvement. She argues that we'd like a brand new vocabulary that incorporates innovations akin to robustness, constancy, and evolvability. yet greater than a brand new vocabulary, a brand new expertise is actually an important: that realizing the elements of a method (be they person genes, proteins, or maybe molecules) may perhaps let us know little concerning the interactions between those components.With the Human Genome undertaking nearing its first and so much publicized aim, biologists are coming to achieve that they've reached no longer the top of biology however the starting of a brand new period. certainly, Keller predicts that during the hot century we'll witness one other Cambrian period, this time in new types of organic idea instead of in new types of organic life.

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