About this title: Focusing on the genes that determine human behaviour, this book discusses how human beings' emotional responses can be genetically isolated and manipulated. The author also considers the political and social implications of this scientific breakthrough.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780571201112ISBN:0571201113
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 01/1999
ISBN-13:9780679444350ISBN:0679444351
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Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780679444350ISBN:0679444351
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Like new condition. Some wear to DJ on rear cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Well, I believe this book to well written but in some cases it is a bit chaotic and the number of surnames is sometimes overwhelming. Still it it a very good position for someone who would like to learn something or anything about molecular biology and its history."
"I purchased Time, Love, Memory based on my fondness for Jonathan Weiner's Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Beak of the Finch. Like that book, Time, Love, Memory explores an important scientific theme through the lives and experiments of notable scientists. As a Brandeis alum, I especially enjoyed the portions of the book about Brandeis professors Jeff Hall and Michael Rosbash, but each scientist mentioned gets some character study as well as a description of his or her work.
The book is a brief history of genetics, beginning with Gregor Mendel's pea plants and working up to the genetics of complex human behavior. Along the way we meet plenty of scientists, and Weiner portrays them as endearingly devoted to their work. When young Sturtevant stays up all night mapping the fruit fly chromosome at the age of 19 and gets hooked on genetics, I want to cheer for him. Enthralled by science and devoted to his mentor, Sturtevant stays with the same lab for the rest of his career. Nowadays such a practice would be considered too "incestuous" for any respectable scientist, but it warmed my heart as if over a bunsen burner to read about it.
I really liked learning about Seymour Benzer's elegant experiments in fly behavior. With a simple device designed to track which flies move toward light and which stay in the darkness, he developed the first high-throughput behavioral screen. Others in his group went on to also become pioneers in genetics. A scientific family tree spreads its branches through Time, Love, Memory, and through it we see how a strong mentor can leave a mark on many other scientists.
Weiner's prose is engaging and his personalization of something as unusual as Drosophila research draws even non-scientist readers into the plot. I enjoyed the book and even as an occasional genetics researcher I was able to learn from it. Time, Love, Memory is worth your time. I don't know if you'll love it, but you will remember it."
"I really liked this book. It's title is a bit deceptive, since it sounds like it's going to be a book on philosophy or something. Instead, it's about how the techniques of studying genes and behavior has begun to shed light on Time, Love and Memory. In particular, the work of Seymour Benzer is studied, who has made enormous contributions to the field with his work on Drosophila. Using this fortuitous model organism and simple but ingeniously clever experiments, Benzer and contemporaries have been able to find some of the important genes which are shared among most living things and help determine our internal clock, mating behaviors and how memories are stored.
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