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By Carl Zimmer. 243 pp. New York, Pantheon, 2008. $25.95. ISBN 978-0-375-42430-4.

Did you know that corn originated from weedy teosinte? Or that long before he became the first president of Israel, Chaim Weizmann worked as a biotechnologist in England, where he discovered bacteria that are capable of manufacturing acetone, an ingredient in explosives? Did you know that Jonathan Beckwith, a biologist at Harvard University, was the first person to isolate a gene? Or that cheese is traditionally made by spiking milk with rennet, an enzyme that is produced in the stomachs of cows? Or that the Industrial Revolution would probably never have happened if the threads of nuts and bolts had . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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