The logic of life 
Subtitle: a history of heredity
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1976
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780394720579
Subjects: Genetics; Science
First sentence: In 1573, in the book entitled Des Monstres et Prodiges which completed his treatise on generation, Ambroise Pare observed: 'Nature always tries to create its own likeness: a lamb with a pig's head was once seen because the ewe had been covered by a boar.'