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Genes: The Fight for Life Book
"Pasteur," Brian Ford believes, "did us all a great disservice". His germ theory of disease bequeathed to us a fear of microbes, and consequently an aversion to unicellular life. This aversion is only heightened by those biologists for whom the cell is merely a dumb vehicle for selfish DNA. In a book whose title badly belies its true subject--cells themselves are, Ford says, "living entities with minds of their own", not mere information packets--the living cell is revealed as the fundamental, pluripotent agent of life on earth. "I want to show that we can understand ourselves only as manifestations of the cells of which we are composed," Ford writes. "Everything we do is a reflection of the separate cells whose choreographed interactions make us what we are.' Ford's … read more...
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