The story of Nobel Prize-winning discoveries regarding the molecular
mechanisms controlling the body's circadian rhythm.
How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our
characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's
Fly Rooms at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer, and
his asssociates are in the process of finding answers, often astonishing
ones, to these questions. Part biography, part thrilling scientific
detective story, Time, Love, Memory forcefully demonstrates how
Benzer's studies are changing our world view--and even our lives.
Jonathan Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the
Finch, brings his brilliant reporting skills to the story of Seymour
Benzer, the Brooklyn-born maverick scientist whose study of genetics and
experiments with fruit fly genes has helped revolutionize or knowledge
of the connections between DNA and behavior both animal and human.