Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA

By Robert Pollack

Book Overview

Displaying a rare gift for metaphor, Pollack draws on his 30 years of research and study to show how DNA provides a complete instruction book for all living things. "The most distinguished book about science I have seen so far this decade".--Horace Freeland Judson, Nature.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395644984
• ISBN13: 9780395644980
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Indispensible background in era of genetic testing

Readily accessible to literate non-scientists and scientists alike, Robert Pollack's is the only fully responsible presentation of the metaphor of DNA as information. Neither an ideologue nor a polemicist, Pollack deserves the chance to change the way we think about the human genome project and its hi-tech spin and spin-offs.