Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science
This charming and unduly modest book is part memoir, part  distillation of 20th-century biology, as told by an eminent  researcher, writer and teacher who witnessed much of it  firsthand. Bonner (Morphology), a former Princeton University  developmental biologist and lifelong devotee of cellular slime  molds, invokes life cycles and development, his specialties, to  talk about the last century!s gigantic steps forward in biology.  He covers advances in biochemistry, population genetics and  embryology; the discovery of DNA structure; and the human genome  project. Against this parade of discoveries, Bonner considers  his own career, which included studying everything from animal  social behavior to evolution. (May)Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.