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Genome : the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters / Matt Ridley.
Publication details: New York : HarperCollins, c1999.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 344 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0060194979 :
- QH431 .R475 1999
Contents:
Summary: The human genome, the complete set of genes housed in twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, is nothing less than an autobiography of our species. Spelled out in a billion three-letter words using the four-letter alphabet of DNA, the genome has been edited, abridged, altered and added to as it has been handed down, generation to generation, over more than three billion years. With the first draft of the human genome due to be published in 2000, we, this lucky generation, are the first beings who are able to read this extraordinary book and to gain hitherto unimaginable insights into what it means to be alive, to be human, to be conscious or to be ill.
Life -- Species -- History -- Fate -- Environment -- Intelligence -- Instinct -- Conflict -- Self-Interest -- Disease -- Stress -- Personality -- Self-Assembly -- Pre-History -- Immortality -- Sex -- Memory -- Death -- Cures -- Prevention -- Politics -- Eugenics -- Free Will.
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| QH 430 .I62 2015 Introduction to genetic analysis / | QH 430 .K576 2017 Essentials of genetics / | QH 430 .L4 2018 Lewin's genes 12 / | QH 431 .R475 1999 Genome : the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters / | QH437.M48 2020 Hacking Darwin : genetic engineering and the future of humanity / | QH 437 .S348 2009 The stuff of life : a graphic guide to genetics and DNA / | QH 437 .W387 2003 DNA : the secret of life. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-336) and index.
Life -- Species -- History -- Fate -- Environment -- Intelligence -- Instinct -- Conflict -- Self-Interest -- Disease -- Stress -- Personality -- Self-Assembly -- Pre-History -- Immortality -- Sex -- Memory -- Death -- Cures -- Prevention -- Politics -- Eugenics -- Free Will.
The human genome, the complete set of genes housed in twenty-three pairs of chromosomes, is nothing less than an autobiography of our species. Spelled out in a billion three-letter words using the four-letter alphabet of DNA, the genome has been edited, abridged, altered and added to as it has been handed down, generation to generation, over more than three billion years. With the first draft of the human genome due to be published in 2000, we, this lucky generation, are the first beings who are able to read this extraordinary book and to gain hitherto unimaginable insights into what it means to be alive, to be human, to be conscious or to be ill.
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