DNA: The Secret of Life.

WATSON, James D. & Andrew Berry.

Item Number: 3685

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

First edition of this work by the Nobel laureate. Octavo, original cloth. Signed James Watson on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

"A remarkable alignment of the planets is occurring in 2003: the 50th anniversary of the double helix and the completion of the sequence of the human genome. As a defining figure in both landmark events, no other human being on the planet is positioned to write as authoritatively about all this as Jim Watson. In DNA: The Secret of Life he does so with characteristic clarity, style, and wit. If you really want to know what happened in the most important half-century of biology since the world began, read this" (Francis Collins).