May I take this chance to ask others for books on bio-t they would recommend? Books that inform and excite?
I recently read some soft stuff:
Time, Love, Memory. A book about the early work by physicists, who later became known as the first molecular geneticists, unlocking gene based behavior using Drosophila mutations. I especially liked that the story is told chronologically, episodically (behavior by behavior)and personally (scientist by scientist). Recommended.
The Genome: A great in-depth discussion of determinism vs free-will and environment vs C-G-A-T, using what is known about the human genome. Also gives a sense of the enormity of the consequences of our eventual understanding and manipulation of genetic material. My conclusion: the scientists are way, way out in front of the ethicists, and worse, way way way out in front of the general population's awareness of what is possible. Recommend, especially for the humanists out there.
From Alchemy to IPO: Not recommended. Be happy to mail my copy to anyone, third class.
Any books that will help me understand signaling pathways and other biological mechanisms that also use words found in Websters or even the Oxford? I can handle technical if it starts at the beginning.
Would books on bios be a candidate for a new thread?
--Wilder |
