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100 1 _aRidley, Matt.
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245 1 0 _aGenome :
_bthe autobiography of a species in 23 chapters /
_cMatt Ridley.
250 _a1st U.S. ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarperCollins,
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300 _a344 p. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [314]-336) and index.
505 0 _aLife -- 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.
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aHuman genome
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650 0 _aHuman genetics
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