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Genome

  • Author: Matt Ridley
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate
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Matt Ridley decided to write Genome because of a chance remark by an evolutionary biologist, David Haig. Haig stated that chromosome 19 was his favourite chromosome. Why? Because: ‘It has all sorts of mischievous genes on it…’ Genome, Matt Ridley This idea stuck in Ridley’s head and so Genome the book was started. What Ridley [...]

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What Is Life?

  • Author: Erwin Schrödinger
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Reviewed by: J.F.Derry
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The structure of DNA and the genetic code may have alluded us for some time more if Crick had not read Erwin Schrödinger’s “What Is Life?” [1]. The research lead that Crick got by doing so was how a small set of repeating elements could give rise to a large number of combinatorial products, a [...]