Review by Martha Quillen
Favorite Books – January 2000 – Colorado Central Magazine
TIME, LOVE, MEMORY, A Great Biologist and his Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner is a beautifully written book relating some of the history of DNA research. Weiner makes understanding complicated genetic research easy — by illuminating the stories of the scientists, and even the fruit flies. By the time you finish, you’ll not only have a fair idea about how we got from Mendel to modern genetic engineering, you might even harbor a fond affection for those surprisingly complex little insects who gave their all to this research.