The Language of the Genes and In the Blood revisits Darwin's The Origin of Species, and updates it for the twenty-first century.

Informationen zum Autor Steve Jones Klappentext Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London and has worked at universities in the USA, Australia and Africa. He gave the BBC Reith Lectures in 1991, and presented a successful BBC TV series on human genetics and evolution in 1996. He is a regular columnist for the Daily Telegraph and frequently appears on radio and television. His previous books include The Language of the Genes (which won the 1994 Rh ne-Poulenc Science Book Prize) and In the Blood (shortlisted for the 1997 Rh ne-Poulenc). He won the 1997 Royal Society Faraday Medal for the Public Understanding of Science. Zusammenfassung In his new book, Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.

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The Language of the Genes and In the Blood revisits Darwin's The Origin of Species, and updates it for the twenty-first century.

Autorentext

Steve Jones

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Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London and has worked at universities in the USA, Australia and Africa. He gave the BBC Reith Lectures in 1991, and presented a successful BBC TV series on human genetics and evolution in 1996. He is a regular columnist for the Daily Telegraph and frequently appears on radio and television. His previous books include The Language of the Genes (which won the 1994 Rh ne-Poulenc Science Book Prize) and In the Blood (shortlisted for the 1997 Rh ne-Poulenc). He won the 1997 Royal Society Faraday Medal for the Public Understanding of Science.

Zusammenfassung
In his new book, Steve Jones takes on the challenge of going back to the book of the millennium, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species.