She has her mother's laugh : the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity / Carl Zimmer.
Zimmer, Carl, 1966- author.
2018
QH431 .Z53 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
She has her mother's laugh : the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity / Carl Zimmer.
Author
Zimmer, Carl, 1966- author.
ISBN
9781101984598 (hardcover)
1101984597 (hardcover)
9781101984604 (electronic book)
9781101984611 (electronic book)
Published
New York, New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
Language
English
Description
xii, 657 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
QH431 .Z53 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
576.5
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 577-642) and index.
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Prologue
Part I. A stroke on the cheek. The light trifle of his substance
Traveling across the face of time
This race should end with them
Attagirl
Part II. Wayward DNA. An evening's revelry
The sleeping branches
Individual Z
Mongrels
Nine foot high complete
Ed and Fred
Part III. The pedigree within. Ex ovo omnia
Witches'-broom
Chimeras
Part IV. Other channels. You, my friend, are a wonderland
Flowering monsters
The teachable ape
Part V. The sun chariot. Yet did he greatly dare
Orphaned at conception
The planet's heirs.

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