The breadth of human thought is reflected in language. So the progress of
science is to some extent constrained by language, depending as it does on the
evolution of thought. In Refiguring Life, now out in paperback (Columbia
University Press, $15.50, ISBN 0 231 10205 4), Evelyn Fox Keller looks at
the role of language and metaphor in the growth of genetic science.
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