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Loading... Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome (edition 2004)by Henry Gee1   name99 | Nov 12, 2006 |   I thought I was getting a description of the state of the art of genome science in 2004. What I actually got was a history of how we reached this state of the art in 2004; but a much better written and much more engaging history than those I've read previously. In particular the author is very sympathetic as to why biologists in times past held the theories they did, explaining just what it was that these scientists thought it was they were explaining, and the constraints of the explanatory model into which they were trying to fit. Thoroughly recommended. (  )1 name99 | Nov 12, 2006 | |
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I thought I was getting a description of the state of the art of genome science in 2004.
What I actually got was a history of how we reached this state of the art in 2004; but a much better written and much more engaging history than those I've read previously. In particular the author is very sympathetic as to why biologists in times past held the theories they did, explaining just what it was that these scientists thought it was they were explaining, and the constraints of the explanatory model into which they were trying to fit.
Thoroughly recommended. (