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To Oswald T. Avery
Possibly I am a scientist because I was curious when I was young. I can remember being ten, eleven, twelve years old and asking, ‘Now why is that? Why do I see such a peculiar phenomenon? I would like to understand that.’
LINUS PAULING
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Who Could Have Guessed It?
Chapter Two: Dna Is Confirmed as the Code
Chapter Three: The Story in the Picture
Chapter Four: A Couple of Misfits
Chapter Five: The Secret of Life
Chapter Six: The Sister Molecule
Chapter Seven: The Logical Next Step
Chapter Eight: First Draft of the Human Genome
Chapter Nine: How Heredity Changes
Chapter Ten: The Advantage of Living Together
Chapter Eleven: The Viruses That Are Part of Us
Chapter Twelve: Genomic Level Evolution
Chapter Thirteen: The Master Controllers
Chapter Fourteen: Our History Preserved in Our Dna
Chapter Fifteen: Our More Distant Ancestors
Chapter Sixteen: The Great Wilderness of Prehistory
Chapter Seventeen: Our Human Relatives
