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Title: Fly : The Unsung Hero of Twentieth-Century Science by Martin Brookes ISBN: 0-06-093679-7 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting, fun, yet informative..
Comment: I'm doing research with fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) myself. And this book was very interesting - telling me the hidden stories of genetics I didn't know, which I couldn't get from scientific journals. I think it's a great book for both laymen and scientists.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Lightweight Intro to Modern Exprimental Genetics
Comment: This is the very interesting history of the research of genetics, evolution, and biology using the very versatile tool Drosophilia melanogaster. However, it is written for a non-scientific audience. There are numerous puns and jokes about the humble fruit fly and the explanation of genes and alleles is reduced to an analogy of shoes on people's feet. This may help people who have absolutly no science background understand the subject, but I found the poor analogies to be distracting.
On the other hand, the history was absorbing. How were maps of genes created before fancy sequencing machines? The answer lies in the close study of thousands of generations of fruit flys and studying their mutations. Many discoveries of basic genes that are present in all life forms are first found in the fruit fly. Many more discoveries are yet to be made.
Rating: 4
Summary: excellent read
Comment: The book's an excellent read for both the layman and the science student. It successfully combines historical detail with contemporary implications of Drosophila research. Written in a breezy colloquial manner, it never gets boring while sacrificing only little of the scientific content. The author does abuse the fly sex theme, often resorting to it with specious warrant. The other shortcoming of the book has to do with its physical quality, which is horrible. Seedy five-buck pocket-size thrillers are printed on paper of incomparably higher quality. Judged on the content, though - a well-written, informative, and entertaining book.
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Title: Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life by Robert E. Kohler ISBN: 0226450635 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Time, Love, Memory : A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner ISBN: 0679763902 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A History of Genetics by A. H. Sturtevant, Edward B. Lewis ISBN: 0879696079 Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Making of a Fly: The Genetics of Animal Design by Peter A. Lawrence ISBN: 0632030488 Publisher: Blackwell Science Inc Pub. Date: January, 1992 List Price(USD): $55.95 |
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Title: Crossing Over Where Art and Science Meet by Rosamond Purcell, Stephen Jay Gould ISBN: 060980586X Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 14 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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