The Double Helix
by James D. Watson
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Watson gives a blunt, personal account of the race to discover DNA's structure, revealing science as a competitive, ego-driven pursuit as much as a search for truth.
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It draws on The Origin of Species.
It’s picked up by The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements and Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.
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Watson positions DNA discovery as the next revolution after Darwin's Origin.
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The book revisits Watson's The Double Helix as the origin point of the molecular biology revolution that Woese would later turn on taxonomy itself.
Watson's The Double Helix is used as the template for Kean's treatment of twentieth-century scientific rivalries, including the element-naming fights between American and Soviet labs.
Watson's The Double Helix is referenced as a parallel 'human story of science' narrative model, with Roach noting that space medicine has its own set of behind-the-scenes rivalries and personalities.
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