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Biology book only costs $23 million
BIOLOGIST Peter Lawrence was thrilled to discover how highly valued his classic book The Making of a Fly seemed to be. We found this out when reader Colin MacLeod alerted us to by biologist Michael Eisen which forensically deconstructs how Lawrence’s thrill came to pass.
Fascinated, we contacted Eisen for an update – to be told that Lawrence regaled guests at his 70th birthday party with the news that his book was being offered on for $23,698,655.93.
The way Eisen tells it, one of his graduate…
