Intrinsic Mutagenesis. A Genetic Approach to Aging. SIGNED BY MACFARLANE BURNET.

BURNET, [F. M.] Macfarlane

Published by Lancaster: MTP Medical and Technical Publishing, 1974.

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ix, 244 pp; 22 figs.; 8 tables. Original leatherette. Very Good, in dust jacket. First Edition. SIGNED BY MACFARLANE BURNET: "For Michael White/ One result of the Committee on fall-out!/ With best wishes/ Mac Burnet." In his Introduction, Burnet writes: "The working hypothesis, which halfway through its writing became the new central theme of the book, arose when I was a member of a committee appointed by the Australian Academy of Science at the request of the Australian Government to advise on the danger from French nuclear tests in the South Pacific" (p. vii). Frank Macfarlane Burnet shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1960 with Peter Medawar "for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance.". Seller Inventory # 16284

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Title: Intrinsic Mutagenesis. A Genetic Approach to...
Publisher: Lancaster: MTP Medical and Technical Publishing, 1974.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition

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