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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates,...
3) Genetics
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Learn all about the history of genetics research, from how scientists began studying genes to how their discoveries affect our lives today."--
5) The Invisible History of the Human Race: how DNA and history shape our identities and our futures
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"How biology, psychology, and history shape us as individuals We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible History of the Human Race Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where we may be going. While some books explore our genetic inheritance and popular television...
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1999
Description
"Francis Crick and James Watson's discovery of DNA - the very building blocks of life - has astounding implications for mankind's future. Their work made possible amazing innovations in cloning, life expectancy, forensics, even the production of foods we eat every day...But what is DNA, and how did Crick and Watson, the Laurel and Hardy of Cambridge, discover it?"--Cover.
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Around 60,000 years ago, a man, genetically identical to us, lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans share a single prehistoric ancestor, do we come in so many sizes, shapes, and races? Examining the hidden secrets of human evolution in our genetic code, the author...
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
"Classical genetics emerged in 1900 with the rediscovery of Mendelism and ended in 1953 with the publication of the double-helical structure of DNA. The story of how that happened is told in Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics.
The first work to explore the way in which the major principles of classical genetics emerged, this book traces the path from Mendel's profound discovery in 1865 in Europe, through the fields of breeding analysis,...
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