
The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics
George Beadle and Muriel Beadle,
The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics
George Beadle and Muriel Beadle,
#2513 of 3,809 books · #254 in Science & Technology
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1967).
Provides the status of the science of life in 1939 when H.G. Wells, and Aldous Huxley were writing. Includes the living body, the classification of life, evolutionary theory, the archaeology of life, the spectacle of life, what was known of health and disease in 1939, and the status of the behavioral sciences in 1939.
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- Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966
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Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1967)
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