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With its pot-bellied stove and barrel of common crackers within reach of whoever had the time for chatting

He himself considered them finished works

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The Ideas of Biology With its pot-bellied stove and"The great achievement of this book," observed the distinguished science writer Gerald Wendt, "is that it presents the basic concepts of biology in concise, lucid, orderly form and thus gradually and understandably transforms the miracle of life into a succession of miraculously simple processes." John Tyler Bonner's series of concise essays explores the foundations of modern biology: the cell, genetics, development, and evolution. "Biologists are