For more than ten years, the distinguished geneticists James F. Crow and William F. Dove have edited the popular “Perspectives” column in Genetics, the journal of the Genetics Society of America. This book, Perspectives on Genetics, collects more than 100 of these essays, which cumulatively are a history of modern genetics research and its continuing evolution.
James F. Crow is professor emeritus of genetics and zoology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. William F. Dove is professor of oncology and medical genetics and the George Streisinger Professor of Experimental Biology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.