Dissects biology's claim to be the Cinderella science that rose above its station. Early attempts to study life through observation, experiment and theory are e... » 

Dissects biology's claim to be the Cinderella science that rose above its station. Early attempts to study life through observation, experiment and theory are exposed in the book as the skeleton of ideas for controlling life, ideas which were only fleshed out by the biotech and genomic industries. «