She has her mother's laugh : the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity / Carl Zimmer.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, New York : Dutton, [2018]Description: xii, 657 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781101984598 (hardcover)
- 1101984597 (hardcover)
- Powers, perversions, and potential of heredity
- 576.5Â 23
- QH431Â .Z53 2018
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-642) and index.
The light trifle of his substance -- Traveling across the face of time -- This race should end with them -- Attagirl -- An evening's revelry -- The sleeping branches -- Individual Z -- Mongrels -- Nine foot high complete -- Ed and Fred -- Ex ovo omnia -- Witches'-broom -- Chimeras -- You, my friend, are a wonderland -- Flowering monsters -- The teachable ape -- Yet did he greatly dare -- Orphaned at conception -- The planet's heirs.
Presents a history of the human understanding of heredity and how it has shaped society, chronicling the transitions brought about by genetic research and making predictions about how evolving understandings are likely to impact the future.
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