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

by Jonathan Weiner

ISBN: 9780679763901
ISBN10: 0679763902

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

by Jonathan Weiner

Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publish date: 03/01/2000
ISBN: 9780679763901
ISBN10: 0679763902

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Description: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Beak of the Finch, one of the most admired and engaging books about evolution, comes "Time, Love, Memory," the story of maverick scientist Seymour Benzer -- one of the greatest biologists of the century. Benzer's early work on the gene helped transform biological research, and the experiments that he began at the California Institute of Technology -- experiments that are, like Benzer himself, at once whimsical, serious, and highly original -- are now transforming the study of genes and behavior.

How much of our fate is decided before we are born? What is written and in what code? What chain of reactions leads from a twisted strand of DNA to a raucous laugh? To a thought? To a memory? To a head turning toward the light? To the habit of frowning? To a raised hand -- or a raised wing?

To answer these questions, Benzer started with a simple experiment employing a few test tubes, a light bulb, and one hundred fruit flies. Close to forty years later, he is still exploring genes and behavior, but now at the level of the-hipbone-is-connected-to-the-thighbone kind of science that will soon begin to change the conditions and the prospects of life itself. Early in the twenty-first century new tools to address anger, depression, and mental illness will be at our disposal. And that is only the beginning. "If he hadn't done it, " says Francis Crick, "no one else would have done it." By breeding generations of flies in fly bottles and conducting his experiments with those tiny creatures, Seymour Benzer has changed the way we think about behavior, and about the cornerstones of our experience -- time, love, and memory.

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