TY  - GEN
N2  - A tiny scrap of genetic information determines our sex; it also consigns many of us to a life of disease, directs or disrupts the everyday working of our bodies, and forces women to live as genetic chimeras. The culprit--so necessary and yet the source of such upheaval--is the X chromosome, and this is its story. An enlightening and entertaining tour of the cultural and natural history of this intriguing member of the genome, The X in Sex traces the journey toward our current understanding of the nature of X. From its chance discovery in the nineteenth century to the promise and implications of ongoing research, David Bainbridge shows how the X evolved and where it and its counterpart Y are going, how it helps assign developing human babies their sex--and maybe even their sexuality--and how it affects our lives in infinitely complex and subtle ways. X offers cures for disease, challenges our cultural, ethical, and scientific assumptions about maleness and femaleness, and has even reshaped our views of human evolution and human nature.
DO  - 10.4159/9780674020412
DO  - doi
AB  - A tiny scrap of genetic information determines our sex; it also consigns many of us to a life of disease, directs or disrupts the everyday working of our bodies, and forces women to live as genetic chimeras. The culprit--so necessary and yet the source of such upheaval--is the X chromosome, and this is its story. An enlightening and entertaining tour of the cultural and natural history of this intriguing member of the genome, The X in Sex traces the journey toward our current understanding of the nature of X. From its chance discovery in the nineteenth century to the promise and implications of ongoing research, David Bainbridge shows how the X evolved and where it and its counterpart Y are going, how it helps assign developing human babies their sex--and maybe even their sexuality--and how it affects our lives in infinitely complex and subtle ways. X offers cures for disease, challenges our cultural, ethical, and scientific assumptions about maleness and femaleness, and has even reshaped our views of human evolution and human nature.
T1  - The X in Sex :How the X Chromosome Controls Our Lives /
AU  - Bainbridge, David, 
JF  - HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
JF  - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1478206
KW  - Chromosome X.
KW  - Genetic sex determination.
KW  - Sex determination, Genetic.
KW  - Sexe
KW  - X chromosome.
KW  - SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology.
SN  - 9780674020412
TI  - The X in Sex :How the X Chromosome Controls Our Lives /
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