The Dynamic Genome SIGNED by BARBARA MCCLINTOCK First Edition 1st Printing

The Dynamic Genome: Barbara McClintock's Ideas in the Century of Genetics. First edition, first printing signed by the author. New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1992.

Signed by Barbara McClintock on the front free endpaper, inscribedMay Michael Ashburner have all the success he deserves. " Also with the ownership inscription of her friend and colleague, "Michael Ashburner, Cold Spring Harbor, 26/6/92, to the same.

Bound in publisher's green cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt. Fine with light rubbing to spine ends in an unclipped dust jacket with subtle sunning to spine and minor creasing to top edge, else Fine.

McClintock's major articles bound together, which offers new perspectives on her work by contemporary scientists. Her research was far ahead of its time; she discovered that genes could "jump" by studying generational mutations in maize, which directly contradicted the prevailing orthodoxy. The pushback she endured caused her to stop publishing and lecturing for the rest of her career. These essays, written in honor of her 90th birthday, "give a remarkable account of the scientific legacy of one of the century's greatest geneticists" as the jacket attests.

McClintock died a few months after this copy was signed.

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