Notes on Publication
Notes On Publication
American Scientist September-October 2003
BIOLOGY
French Symbolism
by Sheldon Penman
(Sheldon Penman is emeritus professor of biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was trained in electrical engineering and has a Ph.D. in high-energy physics. For the past 40 years he has done research in cell biology, initially in nucleic acids and more recently in cellular architecture.)
Review of The Delphic Boat: What Genomes Tell Us. by Antoine Danchin. Translated by Alison Quayle. x + 368 pp. Harvard University Press, 2002 (originally published as La barque de Delphes [Editions Odile Jacob, 1998]). $35.