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Title: Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner ISBN: 0-679-76390-2 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't believe everything they taught you
Comment: ... This is a great book by the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Beak of the Finch. It moves right along and was a cliff hanger, it kept me on the edge of my seat waiting to see which next of my cherised beliefs was going to dashed in the name of science.
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If you think that human nature is largely a result of nurture and you wish to hang on to this belief for dear life, be very afraid, this is not your book.
The book is well written with lots of interviews and original research by the author who already has proven his chops as a science writer. If biology, evolution or genetics is an interest, this is your book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great intro to molecular and genetic neurobiology
Comment: In May 2000 the keynote speaker of the plenary session for the annual American Academy of Neurology meeting was Seymour Benzer. Why should thousands of clinical neurologists be listening to this old guy talking about fruit fly brains? The reasons became clear as Benzer, a soft-spoken, self-effacing genius, gave his talk. His seminal research program has given profound insights into the nature of circadian rhythms, memory, and many other subjects. There are now fruit fly models of Huntington's and Parkinson's disease, providing insights at a subcellular and genetic level. That's why we were listening to him, and that's why subsequently I read this book. I think the book provides an ideal entry, in a creative and unusual fashion, into a history of some of the fundamental forces shaping biomedical research today. As a biography, we learn only a little about Benzer, but perhaps that is inevitable as so much of his life seems to be bound to his research. The literary allusions may be weak at times, but this is after all a book for a broad audience, and Weiner stimulates us to contemplate the wider implications of scientific progress. The book should be readily accessible to those without a science background, and will be highly enjoyable and informative even to those with an advanced understanding of the intricacies of biology.
Rating: 5
Summary: Timeless
Comment: An evocative and wholely compelling portrait of one man that illiminates some of the most significant insights in 20th century biology. Marvelously done. An excellent introduction to molecular genetics. Literary, insightful, witty and precise.
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Title: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner ISBN: 067973337X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: His Brother's Keeper : A Story from the Edge of Medicine by Jonathan Weiner ISBN: 006001007X Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 16 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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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: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Genetics (with InfoTrac) : The Continuity of Life by Daniel J. Fairbanks, Daniel J. Fairbanks, W. Ralph Andersen Daniel J. Fairbanks, W. Ralph Andersen ISBN: 0534252729 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 08 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $127.95 |
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Title: Fly : The Unsung Hero of Twentieth-Century Science by Martin Brookes ISBN: 0060936797 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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