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Cargando... Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behaviorpor Jonathan Weiner
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I've read books on evolutionary biology and other sciences, but for some reason found this one a little confusing. Maybe my natural biases of the role of genes in behavior influenced how I understood the progression of the research's varying interpretations of the nature-nurture debate. Still, not a difficult or long read, and recommended to anyone with a natural interest. time, Love, Memory is Seymour Benzer's story. While Charles Darwin was obsessed with finding the origins of species, Benzer was obsessed with figuring out the origins of behavior. He dedicated his research to finding out the riddle of both animal and human behavior. He wanted to dig deeper into the concepts of nature and nurture, knowing that life was a balance of both. The the diea of reading a book about genes, fruit flies and DNA sounds boring, don't worry. Weiner's style of writing adds a warm and humorous texture to the otherwise scientific plot.
Weiner's book is well written and fun to read, although the question arises, who is the audience? This is scientific reportage and as such should not be expected to provide in-depth analysis of tenets and conclusions. Therefore, those who wish to find a critical assessment of neurogenetics should look elsewhere. Weiner's book is a fascinating history of the effort, led by Benzer, to find the specific genes that regulate time, love and memory in fruit flies and therefore to demonstrate something larger about the connection between genes and behavior. Benzer was dealing with what Weiner calls one of the ultimate questions, like the origin of the universe.
'Que parte de nuestro destino esta decidido antes del nacimiento? ?Que esta escrito y en que codigos? ?Que cadena de reacciones puede llevarnos a pensar o provocarnos la risa? ?Que genes determinan que un insecto se desplace hacia la luz o hacia la sombra? Saymour Benzer, uno de los mayores biologos del siglo XX, ofrece las primeras y sorprendentes respuestas. Su historia y sus increibles estudios sobre el comportamiento de las moscas de la fruta son descritos en esta biografia novelada, en la que tambien se lleva a cabo un repaso por la andadura cientifica de los ultimos cien anos. Tiempo, amor, memoria muestra como Benzer cambio nuestras ideas sobre la conducta de los seres vivos. El autor de estas paginas, Jonathan Weiner, premio Pulitzer, es uno de los escritores especializados de Estados Unidos. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I just have been bothered sometimes by the lack of biological or fly genetics common sense of the author, which is inevitable for a non-fly geneticist. Also, the author is too rumbling in some chapters. ( )