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Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior

Jonathan Weiner

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#300 of 3,809 books · #26 in Science & Technology

Won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1999). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Jonathan Weiner brings his brilliant reporting skills to the story of Seymour Benzer, the Brooklyn-born maverick scientist whose study of genetics and experiments with fruit fly genes has helped revolutionize our knowledge of the connections between DNA and behavior both animal and human. How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's Fly Rooms at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer and his associates are in the process of finding answers, often astonishing ones, to these questions. Part biography, part thrilling scientific detective story, Time, Love, Memory forcefully demonstrates how Benzer's studies are changing our world view--and even our lives.

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ISBN-13
9780756766733
Topics
Genetics and behaviorSeymour Benzer's scientific careerFruit fly experiments and DNA

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