The Logic of Life (eBook)

A History of Heredity

François Jacob (Autor)

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2022
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23899-9 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written."e;-Michel FoucaultNobel Prize-winning scientist Francois Jacob's The Logic of Life is a landmark book in the history of biology and science. Focusing on heredity, which Jacob considers the fundamental feature of living things, he shows how, since the sixteenth century, the scientific understanding of inherited traits has moved not in a linear, progressive way, from error to truth, but instead through a series of frameworks. He reveals how these successive interpretive approaches-focusing on visible structures, internal structures (especially cells), evolution, genes, and DNA and other molecules-each have their own power but also limitations. Fundamentally challenging how the history of biology is told, much as Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions did for the history of science as a whole, The Logic of Life has greatly influenced the way scientists and historians view the past, present, and future of biology.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.8.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Vorwort: Matthew Cobb
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Schlagworte: Abstraction • Accuracy and precision • Analogy • Analysis • Anecdote • Appetite • Automation • biodiversity • Biology • Calculation • Chance and Necessity • classical mechanics • Claude Bernard • conformity • Contingency (Philosophy) • Convenience • Cooperation • Culture • Determination • Ecology • Effectiveness • Emergence • Equilibrium constant • Ethology • Everyday life • Evolution • Experiment • Explanation • Fecundity • fertility • Fine chemical • Form of life (philosophy) • Functional Group • Gratuity • Habitat • heredity • hypothesis • inference • Ingenuity • In situ • jacques monod • la Vie • Life • Logic • Logical connective • loin • Materialism • Metaphysics • Modes of reproduction • Molecule • Morality • Natural Environment • Natural selection • Nomenclature • nutrient • On Certainty • organism • originality • Oviparity • Philosopher • Philosophy • Physiology • Probability • Protein • Proximate cause • Quantity • rapidity • reason • Reproduction • Requirement • Scientific Method • Scientist • Sense • Simple cell • Simplicity • Society • Somatic cell • spatial organization • Surface Area • survival of the fittest • symbiosis • Symbol • System of Systems • Terminology • The Logic of Life • The Order of Things • theory • The Philosopher • The Science of Life • The Various • Thomas Kuhn • Thought • Understanding • Unified Science • Value judgment • vitalism • vivant • well-being • Writing • YIMBY
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23899-5 / 0691238995
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23899-9 / 9780691238999