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This book offers a unique perspective on Zionism. The author, a
geneticist by training, focuses on science, rather than history. He
looks at the claims that Jews constitute a people with common
biological roots. An argument that helps provide justification for
the aspirations of this political movement dedicated to the return
of the Jewish people to their homeland. His study explores two
issues. The first considers the assertion that there is a biology
of the Jews. The second deals with attempts to integrate this idea
into a consistent history. Both issues unfolded against the
background of a romantic national culture of Western Europe in the
19th century: Jews, primarily from Eastern Europe, began to believe
these notions and soon they took the lead in the re-formulation of
Jewish and Zionist existence. The author does not intend to present
a comprehensive picture of the biological literature of the origins
of a people and the blood relations between them. He also
recognizes that the subject is emotionally-loaded. The book does,
however, present a profound mediation on three overlapping
questions: What is special or unique to the Jews? Who were the
genuine Jews? And how can one identify Jews? This volume is a
revised and edited English version of Tzionut Vehabiologia shel
Hayehudim, published in 2006.
This book offers a unique perspective on Zionism. The author, a
geneticist by training, focuses on science, rather than history. He
looks at the claims that Jews constitute a people with common
biological roots. An argument that helps provide justification for
the aspirations of this political movement dedicated to the return
of the Jewish people to their homeland. His study explores two
issues. The first considers the assertion that there is a biology
of the Jews. The second deals with attempts to integrate this idea
into a consistent history. Both issues unfolded against the
background of a romantic national culture of Western Europe in the
19th century: Jews, primarily from Eastern Europe, began to believe
these notions and soon they took the lead in the re-formulation of
Jewish and Zionist existence. The author does not intend to present
a comprehensive picture of the biological literature of the origins
of a people and the blood relations between them. He also
recognizes that the subject is emotionally-loaded. The book does,
however, present a profound mediation on three overlapping
questions: What is special or unique to the Jews? Who were the
genuine Jews? And how can one identify Jews? This volume is a
revised and edited English version of Tzionut Vehabiologia shel
Hayehudim, published in 2006.
There is a paradox lying at the heart of the study of heredity. To
understand the ways in which features are passed on down from one
generation to the next, we have to dig deeper and deeper into the
ultimate nature of things from organisms, to genes, to molecules.
And yet as we do this, increasingly we find we are out of focus
with our subjects. What has any of this to do with the living,
breathing organisms with which we started? Organisms are living.
Molecules are not. How do we relate one to the other? In Genetic
Analysis, one of the most important empirical scientists in the
field in the twentieth century attempts, through a study of history
and drawing on his own vast experience as a practitioner, to face
this paradox head-on. His book offers a deep and innovative
understanding of our ways of thinking about heredity.
There is a paradox lying at the heart of the study of heredity. To
understand the ways in which features are passed on down from one
generation to the next, we have to dig deeper and deeper into the
ultimate nature of things from organisms, to genes, to molecules.
And yet as we do this, increasingly we find we are out of focus
with our subjects. What has any of this to do with the living,
breathing organisms with which we started? Organisms are living.
Molecules are not. How do we relate one to the other? In Genetic
Analysis, one of the most important empirical scientists in the
field in the twentieth century attempts, through a study of history
and drawing on his own vast experience as a practitioner, to face
this paradox head-on. His book offers a deep and innovative
understanding of our ways of thinking about heredity.
Advances in molecular biological research in the latter half of the
twentieth century have made the story of the gene vastly
complicated: the more we learn about genes, the less sure we are of
what a gene really is. Knowledge about the structure and
functioning of genes abounds, but the gene has also become
curiously intangible. This collection of essays renews the
question: what are genes? Philosophers, historians and working
scientists re-evaluate the question in this volume, treating the
gene as a focal point of interdisciplinary and international
research. It will be of interest to professionals and students in
the philosophy and history of science, genetics and molecular
biology.
Advances in molecular biological research in the past forty years have made the story of the gene vastly complicated: the more we learn about genes, the less sure we are of what a gene really is. Knowledge about the structure and functioning of genes abounds, but the gene has also become curiously intangible. This collection of essays renews the question: what are genes? This book is unique in that it is the first interdisciplinary volume, written by philosophers, historians, and working scientists, solely devoted to the quest for the gene. It will be of interest to professionals and students in the philosophy and history of science, genetics, and molecular biology.
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