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The Science of Life. The Science of Life is a book written by H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley and G. P. Wells, published in three volumes by The Waverley Publishing Company Ltd [2] in 1929–30, giving a popular account of all major aspects of biology as known in the 1920s. It has been called "the first modern textbook of biology" [3] and "the best ...
- H. G. Wells, Julian Huxley, G. P. Wells
- 1929
Sep 26, 2008 · It probes the notion of writing and the book of life and shows how molecular biology's claims to a status of language and texuality undermines its own objective of control. These textual significations were historically contingent.
- The Book of Life: Reading, Writing and Editing
- Reading
- Writing
- Editing
- “Don’t Forget The Introns”
- Complexity and Communication
I have been observing the use of the ‘book of life’ metaphor in genetics and genomics since the year 2000, when it was used to announce that the human genome, our entire DNA, had been roughly sequenced. The Human Genome Project had begun in 1990 and was completed in 2003. Its achievement consisted in finding all genes in our human DNA (as it turned...
In 1953 James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin figured out the structure of DNA, and in 1962 Watson, Crick and Wilkins received the Nobel Prize for this discovery. They laid the foundations for modern genetics and genomics and for ‘reading the book of life‘. It’s difficult to say who used the ‘book of life’ metaphor for ...
In 2010, seven years after the full decipherment of the human genome, one of the leaders of the Human Genome Project, Francis Collins, published a book with the same title as George and Muriel Beadle’s, but with a different subtitle: The Language of life: DNA and the revolution in personalised medicine. In 2003 Collins had said: “Today we celebrate...
Five years later, we are reaching another crucial stage in the evolution of the ‘book of life’ metaphor. In 2003, when the human genome had been sequenced, I made a diagram for myself in which I tried to keep track of the cloud of meanings swirling around the book of life (see above). At the time, I thought that ‘editing’ the book of life was ‘just...
There is talk again about the creation of designer babies and this brings me to the ‘mess’ I alluded to at the beginning of this post. In a blog post entitled “Ethics of editing the book of life”, we find this ominous paragraph: “One possible application that has been suggested [for genome editing] is ‘correcting’ the germline: changing the genetic...
So, biology is practically impossible, the genome is incredibly complex and although genome editing or editing the book of life is getting more and more precise, its application interferes with radically complex biological and moral systems, and its consequences cannot yet be anticipated or controlled. The question is: How do you talk about all thi...
John Galsworthy. Succeeded by. Jules Romains. Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography.
Sep 17, 2024 · Accessed 24 October 2024. H.G. Wells, English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. Learn more about Wells’s life and accomplishments in this article.
- At age 18, H.G. Wells won a scholarship to study biology at the Normal School of Science in London, where he studied under T.H. Huxley. He graduate...
- H.G. Wells was a versatile author. The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, his early publications, were science fiction novels that remain clas...
- H.G. Wells was an optimist of a type characteristic of his generation, which was breaking free from Victorian norms. He believed in the doctrine of...
Mar 1, 2000 · This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn of the information age and its impact on representations of nature, heredity, and society. Drawing on archives, published sources, and interviews, the author situates work on the genetic code (1953-70) within the history of life science, the rise ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, c.1888. The author was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1850. His family included engineers, scientists, a professor of philosophy, and a religious minister. We can see the ...
