《Time, Love, Memory》简介：

A fascinating history–. Literate and authoritative–.Marvelously exciting. — The New York Times Book Review

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.

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.

《Time, Love, Memory》摘录：

Benzer hated the new crowds too. His laboratory's work on the growth of fly embryos, fly nerves, and in particular fly eyes had made the fly eye one of the hottest fields in neurobiology. "And there was enormous competition between Seymour's lab and Gerry Rubin's lab in Berkeley," recalls Michael Ashburner. "That's probably passed now, because they've each moved on. But at one time they were both doing rather similar experiments and certainly following a rather similar strategy, and I think there's no question that Gerry's lab did it more successfully than Seymour's —— that the tension of that competition wasn't helpful. This is just an anecdote. But I was at Berkeley in '84 , '85, can't remember now. And I remember going down to Caltech. Fifteen or sixteen people sat around in Seymour's c...