Nature, Nurture and Chance: The Lives of Frank and Charles FennerJudging by the numbers of newspaper reviews, biographies (including autobiographies) are amongst the most common literary works published these days. However, it is uncommon to find one book that combines a biography and an autobiography, as this book does. As the author, Frank Fenner, sees it, 'nature' means the combination of genes that we inherit from our parents; 'nurture' means the way that our physical and social environment, especially during childhood, influence our mental and emotional characteristics; and chance is defined as 'the way things fall out'. These three elements define the careers of all human beings. The author uses them to compare his father's life and his own. |
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... major players in pathology , microbiology and the rising field of virology with whose lives he interconnected , and his mode of inserting boxed information on these participants throughout his text provides valuable biographical ...
... major players in pathology , microbiology and the rising field of virology with whose lives he interconnected , and his mode of inserting boxed information on these participants throughout his text provides valuable biographical ...
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... major pest in Australia; in the absence of country boys from the rural scene in the war years, the population of this imported species had multiplied spectacularly. From 1948, spurred by the strong advocacy of Jean Macnamara, the ...
... major pest in Australia; in the absence of country boys from the rural scene in the war years, the population of this imported species had multiplied spectacularly. From 1948, spurred by the strong advocacy of Jean Macnamara, the ...
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... major figure in the development of strategies to eliminate the disease and offer a system of 'certification' of the eradication of the disease across the world. In May 1980, he addressed the World Health Assembly, which accepted the ...
... major figure in the development of strategies to eliminate the disease and offer a system of 'certification' of the eradication of the disease across the world. In May 1980, he addressed the World Health Assembly, which accepted the ...
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... major part in my life in Canberra is the Australian Academy of Science ( AAS ) , and Chapter 8 describes the many aspects of its activities with which I have been involved . I am the only surviving Fellow of the initial elections , in ...
... major part in my life in Canberra is the Australian Academy of Science ( AAS ) , and Chapter 8 describes the many aspects of its activities with which I have been involved . I am the only surviving Fellow of the initial elections , in ...
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... major projects: bauxite mining at Weipa (north Queensland), a salt field at Dampier (Western Australia), an alumina plant at Gladstone (Queensland) and an aluminium smelter in New Zealand. These projects took Bill all over Australia and ...
... major projects: bauxite mining at Weipa (north Queensland), a salt field at Dampier (Western Australia), an alumina plant at Gladstone (Queensland) and an aluminium smelter in New Zealand. These projects took Bill all over Australia and ...
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Page 193 - Fenner, F., 1959. Genetic studies with mammalian poxviruses. II. Recombination between two strains of vaccinia virus in single HeLa cells. Virology 8, 499. Fenner, F., 1968, "The Biology of Animal Viruses,
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