The Medusa and the Snail Author:Lewis Thomas Readers and admirers of Lewis Thomas' "The Lives of a Cell" will not be surprised to find themselves bound up in the fate of the medusa and the snail; it is one of Dr. Thomas' charms that he brings the most unlikely yet completely insightful observations to bear upon the eternal issues of life and death. These further "Notes of a Biology Watche... more »r" include such magnificent new treasures as essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, including the probable tranquil ending of a mouse's life; on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne who, "if he had possessed a deep knoledge of twentieth century biology, would have been Lewis Thomas," according to Edward O. Wilson.« less