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Science 11 January 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5860, p. 160
DOI: 10.1126/science.1152226
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Delicious Tales of Guinea Pigs, Etc.

Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis

A Guinea Pig's History of Biology
The Plants and Animals Who Taught Us the Facts of Life
by Jim Endersby
Heinemann (Random House), London, 2007. 511 pp. £20. ISBN 9780434012596. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. $27.95. ISBN 9780674027138.
This account for lay readers approaches the history of heredity and genetics through influential examples of the organisms that biologists studied in developing our current understanding.
The reviewer is at the Department of Zoology and the Department of History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. E-mail: bsmocovi{at}ufl.edu

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