Of flies, mice, and men.

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Octavo, paperback, 166 pp.

Nobel Prize-winning genteticist Francois Jacob walks us through the surprising ways of science, particularly the science of biology, in this century. A work of history, a social study of the role of scientists in the modern world, and a cautionary tale of the bumbling and brilliance, imagination and luck, that attend scientific discovery.