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The work situates Francois Jacob’s influence on how scientists interpret past, present, and future biology, contextualizing his Nobel Prize achievement in genetic control of enzyme and viral synthesis. 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Great Britain as TheLogic of Liping Systems:A History of Heredity,by Allen Lane,adivision of Penguin Books Limited,London.First published inAmerica by Pantheon Books,a Division of Random House,Inc.,New York,and reprinted here in the Princeton Science Library seriesby permission of Random House,Inc.  \nFirst Princeton paperback printing,1993New Princeton Science Library edition,with a newforeword by Matthew Cobb,2022  \nNew paperback ISBN 9780691182841ISBN(e-book)9780691238999  \nLibrary of Congress Control Number:2021948908  \nwww.press.princeton.edu  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nDo you see this egg?With it you  \ncan overthrow all the schools of theology,all the churches of the earth.  \nDIDEROT  \nConversation with d'Alembert  \nContents  \nForeword by Matthew CobbixPrefacexxiIntroduction The Programme  \nII9Generation20Deciphering Nature28Mechanism32Species44Preformation52Heredity6774Memory and Heredity75The Hidden Architecture82Life88The Chemistry of Life92The Plan ofOrganiationIOOThe CellIII3 TimeI30CataclysmsI3ITransformationsI42FossilsI52EvolutionI604 The GeneI78ExperimentationI8oStatistical Analysis  \nr The Visible Structure  \n2 Organization  \nI92The Birth of Genetics2OIThe Dance of the Chromosomes209Enzymes2265 The Molecule247Macromolecules249  \nContents  \nMicro-organisms260The Message267Regulation279Copy and Error286Conclusion The Integron299Notes325Index339  \n# Foreword\n\nIn 1970,Francois Jacob(1920-2013)published La logique du vivant,abook that soon had a significant influence on the way scientists,histori-ans,and the general public viewed the past,present,and future of biol-ogy.Five years earlier,Jacob had shared the Nobel Prize in Physiologyor Medicine with his Institut Pasteur colleagues Jacques Monod andAndré Lwoff.This award,for their work on the genetic control of thesynthesis of enzymes and viruses,was one of a series of Nobel Prizes torecognise the huge breakthroughs in molecular biology that occurred inthe 1950s and 1960s,and it came at a paradoxical moment.At the sametime that molecular biology was internationally recognised as a majornew discipline and thousands of researchers around the world began towork in the area,most of the founders of the field were leaving,turningtheir attention to the nervous system or cancer.Jacob,who had been oneof the pioneers,shared this uncertainty about the future.Having reachedthe heights of scientific achievement,he began to wonder what it was allabout,and more specifically,as he recalled in 2004,‘why we got to wherewe were.'(Lwoff and Monod appear to have had a similar experience;both men also published popular science books at around the sametime—Lwoff's L'ordre biologique appeared in 1969 and Monod's Chanceand Necessity in 1970.)  \nAs Jacob mused about where to turn his scientific attention—shortlyafter this book appeared,he began to study embryonic development inthe mouse—he looked at various histories of biology to answer his deepquestions about the shape of science.He was disappointed with what hefound—as he said in 1995,I leafed through two or three books on thehistory of biology,but they did not seem to me to have the right way ofpr","cbCaipf9FyjATBJ8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipf9FyjATBJ8","pdf",40937427,3,1,373,"English","en",105,"# Foreword\n# Preface\n# Introduction\n## The Programme\n## Generation\n## Deciphering Nature\n## Mechanism\n## Species\n## Preformation\n## Heredity\n## Memory and Heredity\n## The Hidden Architecture\n## Life\n## The Chemistry of Life\n## The Plan of Organization\n## The Cell\n## Time\n## Cataclysms\n## Transformations\n## Fossils\n## Evolution\n## The Gene\n## Experimentation\n## Statistical Analysis\n## The Visible Structure\n## Organization\n## The Birth of Genetics\n## The Dance of the Chromosomes\n## Enzymes\n## The Molecule\n## Macromolecules\n## Micro-organisms\n## The Message\n## Regulation\n## Copy and Error\n## Conclusion\n## The Integron\n# Notes\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What is the 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