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The Gene: From Genetics to Postgenomics
Science > Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics
- University of Chicago Press
- Paperback
- 9780226510002
- 9 X 6 X 0.5 inches
- 0.5 pounds
- Science > Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics
- (Single Author) Asian American
- English
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The time could not be better, therefore, for Hans-J�rg Rheinberger and Staffan M�ller-Wille's magisterial history of the concept of the gene. Though the gene has long been the central organizing theme of biology, both conceptually and as an object of study, Rheinberger and M�ller-Wille conclude that we have never even had a universally accepted, stable definition of it. Rather, the concept has been in continual flux--a state that, they contend, is typical of historically important and productive scientific concepts. It is that very openness to change and manipulation, the authors argue, that made it so useful: its very mutability enabled it to be useful while the technologies and approaches used to study and theorize about it changed dramatically.
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