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Life's Greatest Secret (Hardcover)
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Life's Greatest Secret (Hardcover)
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Everyone has heard of the story of DNA as the story of Watson and
Crick and Rosalind Franklin, but knowing the structure of DNA was
only a part of a greater struggle to understand life's secrets.
Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking
of the genetic code, the thing that ultimately enables a spiraling
molecule to give rise to the life that exists all around us. This
great scientific breakthrough has had farreaching consequences for
how we understand ourselves and our place in the natural world, and
for how we might take control of our (and life's) future. Life's
Greatest Secret mixes remarkable insights, theoretical dead-ends,
and ingenious experiments with the swift pace of a thriller. From
New York to Paris, Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Cambridge, England,
and London to Moscow, the greatest discovery of twentieth-century
biology was truly a global feat. Biologist and historian of science
Matthew Cobb gives the full and rich account of the cooperation and
competition between the eccentric characters--mathematicians,
physicists, information theorists, and biologists--who contributed
to this revolutionary new science. And, while every new discovery
was a leap forward for science, Cobb shows how every new answer
inevitably led to new questions that were at least as difficult to
answer: just ask anyone who had hoped that the successful
completion of the Human Genome Project was going to truly yield the
book of life, or that a better understanding of epigenetics or
"junk DNA" was going to be the final piece of the puzzle. But the
setbacks and unexpected discoveries are what make the science
exciting, and it is Matthew Cobb's telling that makes them worth
reading. This is a riveting story of humans exploring what it is
that makes us human and how the world works, and it is essential
reading for anyone who'd like to explore those questions for
themselves.
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