Vital Harmonies: Molecular Biology and Our Shared Humanity

Erwin Fleissner

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Paper, 176 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13113-1
$26.00 / £18.00

August, 2004
Cloth, 176 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13112-4
$80.00 / £55.00

Prefatory Note

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Molecular Biology from the Viewpoint of a Practitioner

The Genetic Point of View

The Logic of the Cell

From Cell to Organism

Abnormal Cell Growth in Cancer

Human Genomes and Human Beings

On Consciousness

Molecular Biology and the Limits of Molecular Explanation

Notes

Glossary

Select Bibliography and Further Reading

Index

Related Subjects

• General Biology

About the Author

Erwin Fleissner is professor emeritus of biology and former dean of sciences and mathematics (1987-1998) at Hunter College, City University of New York. Before Hunter, he was a member of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research where he discovered the protein composition of retroviruses and researched the roles of cell-derived genes in cancers caused by such viruses in animals.

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