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Genetics

Life as we know it

by Michael Bérubé,

A father, a son, and genetic destiny

The hard life of a mutant fruit fly

by Dan L. Lindsley, Georgianna G. Zimm,

Revising the facts of life

by P.B. (Peter Brian) Medawar, J.S. Medawar,

Fearful of science

by Horace Freeland Judson,

Genetics and the survival of the unfit

by Lucy Eisenberg,

The Race to Create Life

by Leonard Engel,

Our scientists are now close to a feat that will rival the conquest of space—the unlocking of the secrets of heredity, reproduction, and of life itself.

Where life begins

by George W. (George William) Gray,

Search among the gene, the virus, and the enzyme

The future of man

by J.B.S. (John Burdon Sanderson) Haldane,

Inventive germ-cells

by C.H. (Charles Henshaw) Ward,

The architects of evolution

Applied heredity

by Reginald Crundall Punnett,