Time, Love, Memory : A Great Biologist and His Search for the Origins of Behavior

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Beak of the Finch, one of the most admired and engaging books about evolution, comes "Time, Love, Memory," the story of maverick scientist Seymour Benzer -- one of the greatest biologists of the century. Benzer's early work on the gene helped transform biological research, and the experiments that he began at the California Institute of Technology -- experiments that are, like Benzer himself, at once whimsical, serious, and highly original -- are now transforming the study of genes and behavior.How much of our fate is decided before we are born? What is written and in what code? What chain of reactions leads from a twisted strand of DNA to a raucous laugh? To a thought? To a memory? To a head turning toward the light? To the habit of frowning? To a raised hand -- or a raised wing?To answer these questions, Benzer started with a simple experiment employing a few test tubes, a light bulb, and one hundred fruit flies. Close to forty years later,he is still exploring genes and behavior, but now at the level of the-hipbone-is-connected-to-the-thighbone kind of science that will soon beginWeiner is the author of 'Time, Love, Memory : A Great Biologist and His Search for the Origins of Behavior', published 2000 under ISBN 9780606200110 and ISBN 0606200118.