Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2750308 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Synopsis
In this memoir, John C. Avise describes how he merged his youthful passion for natural history with the reasoned study of genetic science. His pioneering work, using molecular genetic techniques to examine ecological and evolutionary questions, stimulated an integration of these seemingly disparate realms. Avise here describes his scientific adventures with animals in the wild (such as digging for gophers in a Georgia field or seining blind fish from pitch-black caves in Mexico) and in laboratories (such as deciphering the intriguing inheritance patterns of mitochondrial DNA in a modern genetics laboratory). Writing in the tradition of E.O. Wilson and Margaret D. Lowman, he reflects on the artistry of scientific discovery and the allure of the natural world.