Anti-reductionists will enjoy Genetics and the Manipulation of Life: The Forgotten Factor of Context (Lindisfarne, $14.95, ISBN 0 940262 77 0) by Craig Holdredge. This is well-trodden territory, but apart from the odd unconsciously funny lapse鈥斺�漈he feet we walk on when we are seven are not the ones we inherited鈥濃�攈is argument, that genes and organisms can only be understood in the context of their surroundings, is worth repeating.
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