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Life's Greatest Secret - The Race to Crack the Genetic Code (Hardcover, Main)
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Life's Greatest Secret - The Race to Crack the Genetic Code (Hardcover, Main)
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Shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking
of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had
far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our
place in the natural world. The code forms the most striking proof
of Darwin's hypothesis that all organisms are related, holds
tremendous promise for improving human well-being, and has
transformed the way we think about life. Matthew Cobb interweaves
science, biography and anecdote in a book that mixes remarkable
insights, theoretical dead-ends and ingenious experiments with the
pace of a thriller. He describes cooperation and competition among
some of the twentieth-century's most outstanding and eccentric
minds, moves between biology, physics and chemistry, and shows the
part played by computing and cybernetics. The story spans the
globe, from Cambridge MA to Cambridge UK, New York to Paris, London
to Moscow. It is both thrilling science and a fascinating story
about how science is done.
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