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In a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism, Evelyn Fox Keller, one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science, provides a powerful, profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century, the centuryā¦
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Genes have variously been described as selfish and controllingāas providing a blueprint or a program for developmentāas even āthe cellās brainā. These descriptions of genes get in the way of our understanding of what genes actually doāand what they donāt (and cannot) do. Evelyn Fox Keller provides an antidote to the simplistic notions of genes that permeate our society and infect our scientific discourse. She carefully walks us through the history of the field and provides us with a much more realistic view of the intricacies of DNA. By the end of this marvelous book, you may not even thinkā¦
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