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The Human Genome Project, an international scientific enterprise aimed at attaining a complete sequence and locator map of the entire human genetic structure by the year 2005, constitutes the largest single project ever undertaken in the life sciences. When completed, it will help pinpoint the genetic basis of virtually any human trait. It will also offer the possibility for medical interventions for many diseases and abnormalities related to genetic processes. In this timely collection, scholars from the fields of philosophy, history, ethics, theology, and the natural sciences explore the complex, far-reaching issues surrounding the Human Genome Project.

Human Genome Project.

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Originating from conferences held at the Gregorian University in Rome and at the University of Notre Dame, these essays assess the continuing relevance of Darwin's work across academic fields.

Evolution (Biology) --- Religious aspects.

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In 1935 geneticist Nikolai Timoféeff-Ressovsky, radiation physicist Karl G. Zimmer, and quantum physicist Max Delbrück published "On the Nature of Gene Mutation and Gene Structure," known subsequently as the "Three-Man Paper." This seminal paper advanced work on the physical exploration of the structure of the gene through radiation physics and suggested ways in which physics could reveal definite information about gene structure, mutation, and action. Representing a new level of collaboration between physics and biology, it played an important role in the birth of the new field of molecular biology. The paper's results were popularized for a wide audience in the What is Life? lectures of physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1944. Despite its historical impact on the biological sciences, the paper has remained largely inaccessible because it was only published in a short-lived German periodical. Creating a Physical Biology makes the Three Man Paper available in English for the first time. Brandon Fogel's translation is accompanied by an introductory essay by Fogel and Phillip Sloan and a set of essays by leading historians and philosophers of biology that explore the context, contents, and subsequent influence of the paper, as well as its importance for the wider philosophical analysis of biological reductionism.

Molecular biology --- Genetics --- History --- Timofeev-Resovskiĭ, N. V. --- Delbrück, Max. --- Zimmer, Karl Günter, --- biology, biological, science, scientific, scientists, molecular, liberal studies, history, historical, humanities, genetics, geneticists, radiation, physics, physicists, quantum, gene, structure, mutation, three man paper, nikolai timofeeff-ressovsky, karl g zimmer, max delbruck, what is life, translation, translated work, analysis, inquiry, reductionism, 20th century, german, germany, biophysics, autonomy, perspectives. --- Timofeev-Resovskii, N. V. --- Delbruck, Max. --- Zimmer, Karl Gunter,