Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Författare till Coming to Life: How Genes Drive Development
Om författaren
Verk av Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Mein Kochbuch: Einfaches zu besonderen Anlässen: Einfaches für besondere Anlässe (insel taschenbuch) (2006) 3 exemplar
Schönheit der Tiere: Evolution biologischer Ästhetik (Fröhliche Wissenschaft 126) (German Edition) (2017) 3 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Nüsslein-Volhard, Christiane
- Födelsedag
- 1942-10-20
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- Germany
- Födelseort
- Magdeburg, Germany
- Utbildning
- University of Tübingen
- Yrken
- biologist
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Albert Lasker Award (1991)
Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine, 1995)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1986)
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Statistik
- Verk
- 11
- Medlemmar
- 92
- Popularitet
- #202,476
- Betyg
- 3.5
- Recensioner
- 1
- ISBN
- 12
- Språk
- 4
The book is slim at 145 pages, but covers all of basic genetics and development. In order to do this, the prose is exceptionally spare and no-nonsense, and the emphasis is always on explaining things simply and clearly, with no digressions and no unnecessary detail. For instance, recombination gets two paragraphs; the Hedgehog/Wingless genes, one paragraph and a diagram; Hox genes get a whole page. Jargon is avoided, unless it has been first introduced and explained. You should be able to finish this book and then be able to sound convincingly like a developmental biologist in a conversation, I think; it's a kind of Berlitz course in the discipline. The emphasis in all of the explanations is clarity, so despite its comprehensive nature and breakneck pace, it won't make you stop and try to
puzzle out what she's talking about—it's all plainly laid out for you.
Junior Cain (cainbookreviews.blogspot.com… (mer)