The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment
โ Scribed by Richard Lewontin
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 142
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
This book places organisms in context. Indirectly, this helps an individual understand its own identity. One is not a cluster of genes and one is not the environment, although one would not exist without these.
A human is an organism. This book helps focus the reader's attention on this fact.
Imagine what it would be like to misidentify yourself.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
One of our most brilliant evolutionary biologists, Richard Lewontin has also been a leading critic of those--scientists and non-scientists alike--who would misuse the science to which he has contributed so much. In The Triple Helix, Lewontin the scientist and Lewontin the critic come together to p