The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology, 25th Anniversary Edition Pdf

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Edition: Expanded
Release: 1996-11-01
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0879694785
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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This lay history of molecular biology now contains material on some of the principal figures involved, particularly Rosalind Franklin and Erwin Chargaff. The foreword and epilogue sketch the further development of molecular biology into the era of recombinant DNA.In the foreword to this expanded edition of his 1979 masterpiece, Horace Freeland Judson says, "I feared I might seem the official historian of the movement"--molecular biology, that is. If by official he means "authoritative; definitive; the standard against which all others are measured" then his fears are warranted. Detailed without being overly technical, humane without being fulsome, The Eighth Day of Creation tells of molecular biology's search for the secret of life. "The drama has everything--exploration of the unknown; low comedy and urgent seriousness; savage competition, vaulting intelligence, abrupt changes of fortune, sudden understandings; eccentric and brilliant people, men of honor and of less than honor; a he Download The Eighth Day of Creation for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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