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The author argues that molecular biology did not evolve in a random fashion but, rather, was the result of systematic efforts by key scientists and their supporting foundations to direct the development of biological research toward a preconceived vision of science and society.
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1. "Social Control:" the Rockefeller Foundation's Agenda in the Human Sciences, 1913-1933; 2. The Technological Frontier: Southern California and the Emergence of Life Science at Caltech; 3. Visions and Realitites: The Biology Division in the Morgan Era; Interlude 1 -- The Protein Paradigm; 4. From Flies to Molecules: Physiological Genetics in the Morgan Era; 5. A Convergence of Goals: From Physical Chemistry to Bio-Organic Chemistry; 6. The Spoils of War: Immunochemistry and Serological Genetics, 1940-1945; 7. Microorganisms and Macromanagement: Beadle's Return to Caltech; 8. The Molecular Empire
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