Time, Love, Memory A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior

Name: Time, Love, Memory A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
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ISBN: 9780679763901

ISBN-10: 0679763902

ISBN-13: 9780679763901

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Authors: Jonathan Weiner

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"A fascinating history--. Literate and authoritative--.Marvelously exciting." --The New York Times Book Review Jonathan Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch, brings his brilliant reporting skills to the story of Seymour Benzer, the Brooklyn-born maverick scientist whose study of genetics and experiments with fruit fly genes has helped revolutionize or knowledge of the connections between DNA and behavior both animal and human. How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's Fly Rooms at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer, and his asssociates are in the…

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List price: $19.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/4/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638

Jonathan Weiner is an artist whose work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he lives in New York City.




Occam's Castle



From So Simple a Beginning



The White-Eyed Fly



What Is Life?



The Finger of the Angel



A New Study, and a Dark Corner



Konopka's Law



First Light



First Choice



First Time



First Love



First Memory



Pickett's Charge



The Drosophila Arms



Cloning an Instinct



Reading an Instinct



Singed Wings



The Lord's Masterpiece



Pavlov's Hat



Rough Mountain



The Knot of Our Condition



Pickett's Charge


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index