The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in by Horace Freeland Judson

By Horace Freeland Judson

during this vintage publication, the celebrated technology author Horace Freeland Judson tells the tale of the start and early improvement of molecular biology within the US, the united kingdom, and France. The interesting tale of the golden interval from the revelation of the double helix of DNA to the cracking of the genetic code and primary glimpses of gene legislation is advised principally within the phrases of the most gamers, all of whom Judson interviewed widely. the result's a publication generally considered as the simplest historical past of modern organic technological know-how but published.

This commemorative variation, honoring the reminiscence of the writer who died in 2011, includes essays via his daughter Olivia Judson, Matthew Meselson, and Mark Ptashne and an obituary through Jason Pontin. It comprises the entire content material extra to prior variants, together with essays on a few of the critical old figures concerned, resembling Rosalind Franklin, and a caricature of the extra improvement of molecular biology within the period of recombinant DNA.

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