Comments on: Book review – Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA/2019/08/16/book-review-unravelling-the-double-helix-the-lost-heroes-of-dna/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Mon, 04 Dec 2023 10:43:29 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/08/16/book-review-unravelling-the-double-helix-the-lost-heroes-of-dna/comment-page-1/#comment-24697Wed, 18 Aug 2021 07:46:40 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3725#comment-24697[…] decades later; the discovery of the structure of DNA, honouring the long course described in Unravelling the Double Helix; and the discovery of how DNA codes for amino acids. It touches on horizontal gene transfer, […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/08/16/book-review-unravelling-the-double-helix-the-lost-heroes-of-dna/comment-page-1/#comment-16880Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:35:44 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3725#comment-16880[…] Thus entropy is “the physical process that makes a mess of everything“, while Money explains the gene-centric view of evolution by saying that “we are temporary vessels for genes, situated in family trees that assume the shape of a river delta with DNA streams draining down from ancestors to descendants“. The discovery of DNA and its structure is a particular highlight for him and in just a few pages he mentions some of the key players in that 100-year history that Williams so elaborately described in Unravelling the Double Helix. […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/08/16/book-review-unravelling-the-double-helix-the-lost-heroes-of-dna/comment-page-1/#comment-6057Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:41:31 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3725#comment-6057[…] Thus entropy is “the physical process that makes a mess of everything“, while Money explains the gene-centric view of evolution by saying that “we are temporary vessels for genes, situated in family trees that assume the shape of a river delta with DNA streams draining down from ancestors to descendants“. The discovery of DNA and its structure is a particular highlight for him and in just a few pages he mentions some of the key players in that 100-year history that Williams so elaborately described in Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA. […]

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]]>By: Book review – Kin: How We Came to Know Our Microbe Relatives | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/08/16/book-review-unravelling-the-double-helix-the-lost-heroes-of-dna/comment-page-1/#comment-5347Fri, 16 Aug 2019 08:13:27 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3725#comment-5347[…] discovery of the structure of DNA (see also Watson’s DNA: The Secret of Life and my review of Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA). Researchers initially thought that DNA was too simple a molecule to be the bearer of heritable […]

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]]>By: Book review – Discovering Retroviruses: Beacons in the Biosphere | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/08/16/book-review-unravelling-the-double-helix-the-lost-heroes-of-dna/comment-page-1/#comment-5346Fri, 16 Aug 2019 08:11:29 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3725#comment-5346[…] of genetics, from Mendel to Crick and onwards to the “central dogma” (see my review of Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA for more). That dogma refers to the finding that DNA is copied into single-stranded RNA which is […]

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