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Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology by Evelyn Fox Keller

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This book re-qualifies our understanding of the gene model of genetics. In most science and medical communication, we have portrayed genes as pieces of template code which drive features in a mechanical manner. The story, however, is much more complicated than this, and this is not just a story of science communication but one of the politics and business of science.
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