raghu wrote: > >An excellent > not-too-technical presentation of this idea is in Evelyn Keller's "The > Century of the Gene" where the author (who is a physicist turned > feminist-historian of biology) traces the history of the gene metaphor > through the 20'th century and argues for retiring the term altogether > because it has outlived its usefulness. > -raghu.
Evelyn Keller's _Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McLintock_ is an important work on women in science, and also illuminates many aspects of genetics for those of us untrained in that field. If I remember correctly, Gould wrote a highly interesting review of it i n the NLRB. Carrol
