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Contents List of Illustrations vi Preface vii Part I: Genetic Engineering and Agriculture 1. Sowing Technology 3 2. Golden Genes and World Hunger: Let Them Eat Transgenic Rice? 16 3. Will Biotech Feed the World? The Broader Context 28 4. We Label Orange Juice, Why Not Genetically Modified Food? 42 Part II: Genes and Context 5. Genes Are Not Immune to Context: Examples from Bacteria 59 6. The Gene: A Needed Revolution 64 7. Reflections on the Human Genome Project 72 8. Me and My Double Helixes 83 9. Logic, DNA, and Poetry 97 Part III: To Be an Organism 10. The Cow: Organism or Bioreactor? 111 11. The Forbidden Question 123 12. What Does It Mean to Be a Sloth? 132 Part IV: Science Evolving 13. The Language of Nature 157 14. Delicate Empiricism: Practicing a Goethean Approach to Science 202 Acknowledgments 229 References 231 Index 247 ...

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