Edited by
David Baltimore, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, U.S.A.
Renato Dulbecco, The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.
François Jacob, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Rita Levi-Montalcini, Instituto di Neurobiologia del CNR, Rome, Italy
Description
Frontiers of Life addresses fields of biology in terms of their frontiers--that is, the areas that will demand the most
work in this new century. Because of their standing, the editors have been able to unite the most prestigious and well-informed authorities
to place recent scientific advances into the context of their effects on daily human experiences and expectations. They ask, "What frontiers
of the biological sciences will constitute the challenges of the next century?" Their first answer is an understanding of the processes
and mechanisms that led to the origin of life. They take this answer as the starting point of the first section of the
Encyclopedia.
They thus proceed throughout the four volumes.
Separating this
Encyclopedia form others is its multidisciplinary approach
to the "frontiers" theme. While other encyclopedias strive to describe the past and present states of many subjects,
Frontiers
of Life offers the insights of world-class scientists into their subjects' growth areas.
Audience:
Major college and university library systems of the world; individuals, corporations, laboratories, and groups interested in the effects of biology on their particular subjects.
