Time, Love, Memory
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Time, Love, Memory by Jonathan Weiner
The story of Nobel Prize-winning discoveries regarding the molecular mechanisms controlling the body's circadian rhythm. 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 asssociates 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. Jonathan Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch, 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 or knowledge of the connections between DNA and behavior both animal and human.Jonathan Weiner is a well-known popular-science author who has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for his works. He is a former editor at The Sciences, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, Time, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Scientific American, Smithsonian, and many other newspapers and magazines. The Beak of the Finch, Long for This World, His Brother's Keeper, The Next One Hundred Years, and Planet Earth are among his works. He teaches science writing at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and lives in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679763901 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679763902 |
| Title | Time, Love, Memory |
| Author | Jonathan Weiner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2000-04-04 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards. |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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