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Time, love, memory : a great biologist and his quest for the origins of behavior
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Time, love, memory : a great biologist and his quest for the origins of behavior

by Jonathan Weiner

An exploration of the genetic foundations of behaviour, tracing how pioneering research on fruit flies has identified the genes shaping memory, biological clocks, and learning, and what these discoveries mean for understanding human behavioural disorders.

Accession 16961 ISBN 9780679444350 Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
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