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Rheinberger and Mueller-Wille's insightful historical exploration of the many and changing meanings of the gene concept brings much needed clarification to the ongoing debate about the continuing usefulness of the term. --Soraya de Chadarevian, UCLA As authors of the definitive history of heredity, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger and Staffan Muller-Wille's account of the gene has been eagerly awaited. It will not disappoint. For anyone who wants to understand the various subtly intertwined meanings of the word 'gene' and where these came from, this is the book to read. --John Dupre, University of Exeter Rheinberger and Muller-Wille's insightful historical exploration of the many and changing meanings of the gene concept brings much needed clarification to the ongoing debate about the continuing usefulness of the term. --Soraya de Chadarevian, UCLA The Gene is an erudite and elegant history of a (perhaps the) central concept of twentieth century biology. Rheinberger and Muller-Wille show that the gene's success lay in its plasticity in different experimental registers and its pluralism in connecting divergent theories and scientists. This book is now the definitive synthesis and point of departure for new scholarship. --Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University

Rheinberger and Mueller-Wille's insightful historical exploration of the many and changing meanings of the gene concept brings much needed clarification to the ongoing debate about the continuing usefulness of the term. --Soraya de Chadarevian, UCLA As authors of the definitive history of heredity, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger and Staffan Muller-Wille's account of the gene has been eagerly awaited. It will not disappoint. For anyone who wants to understand the various subtly intertwined meanings of the word 'gene' and where these came from, this is the book to read. --John Dupre, University of Exeter The Gene is an erudite and elegant history of a (perhaps the) central concept of twentieth century biology. Rheinberger and Muller-Wille show that the gene's success lay in its plasticity in different experimental registers and its pluralism in connecting divergent theories and scientists. This book is now the definitive synthesis and point of departure for new scholarship. --Angela N. H. Creager, Princeton University

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Hans-Jorg Rheinberger is emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Staffan Muller-Wille is associate professor and codirector of the Egenis Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences at the University of Exeter. Adam Bostanci is a science writer and academic researcher who is currently a senior research fellow at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.

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