{"product_id":"the-century-of-the-gene-9780674008250","title":"The Century of the Gene","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a book that promises to change the way we think and talk about genes and genetic determinism  Evelyn Fox Keller  one of our most gifted historians and philosophers of science  provides a powerful  profound analysis of the achievements of genetics and molecular biology in the twentieth century  the century of the gene. Not just a chronicle of biologys progress from gene to genome in one hundred years  The Century of the Gene also calls our attention to the surprising ways these advances challenge the familiar picture of the gene most of us still entertain.  Keller shows us that the very successes that have stirred our imagination have also radically undermined the primacy of the geneword and objectas the core explanatory concept of heredity and development. She argues that we need a new vocabulary that includes concepts such as robustness  fidelity  and evolvability. But more than a new vocabulary  a new awareness is absolutely crucial: that understanding the components of a system (be they individual genes  proteins  or even molecules) may tell us little about the interactions among these components.  With the Human Genome Project nearing its first and most publicized goal  biologists are coming to realize that they have reached not the end of biology but the beginning of a new era. Indeed  Keller predicts that in the new century we will witness another Cambrian era  this time in new forms of biological thought rather than in new forms of biological life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646992244789,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674008251","price":24.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674008250.jpg?v=1781684639","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-century-of-the-gene-9780674008250","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}