Beadle, George and Muriel,
The Language
of Life, Garden City, New York 1966.
Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. and Bodner, W. F.,
The Genetics of Human Populations
, San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1971.
Karp, Laurence F.,
Genetic Engineering, Threat of Promise
, Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1979.
Levine, Robert Paul,
Genetics
, 2nd edition, New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1968. A nice combination of theory and corroborating experiments of period clearly expressed in wording graphics.
Luria, S. E.,
Life, The Unfinished Experiment
, New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1973. Easily read, material gradually introduced, humanistic approach, by 1969 Nobel Prize Winner.
Moore, John A.,
Heredity and Development
, New York: Oxford University Press, 1957, 1963. Background for historical aspects of genetics, written during Watson-Crick helix period.
Olby, Robert C.,
Origins of Mendelism
, New York: Schocken Books, 1967. The book presents a human view of the background of the Mendelian experiments, the man, and an appendix with original sources.
Penrose, L. S.,
Outline of Human Genetics
, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1959. Beautifully written, cogent, pleasant to read, strong section on color blindness.
Scientific American,
The Molecular Basis of Life Biotics
, San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co., 1968. Selected articles from Scientific American including “Gene Action in Protein Synthesis” and “Modifications of Gene Action”.
Volpe, E. Peter,
Human Heredity and Birth Defects
, Indianapolis: Pegasus, division of Bobb-Merrill Company, Inc., 1971. This book details chromosomal and gene defects. It contains pictures and it is not for the squeamish.
Watson, James D.,
Molecular Biology of the Gene
, 3rd edition, Menlo Park, California: W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1977. This is Watson’s book. It contains very good summaries at the end of each chapter on all phases of gene molecular biology.