Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body Tapa dura - 2003
de Armand Marie Leroi
"Who are the mutants? We are all mutants. But some of us are more mutant than others."
Variety, even deformity, may seem like an unlikely route by which to approach normality, even perfection. Yet much of what we know about the mechanisms of human development, growth, and aging comes from the study of people who are afflicted with congenital diseases, most of which have genetic causes. Congenital abnormalities reveal not only errors within the womb, but also our evolutionary history.
In Mutants, Armand Marie Leroi gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic grammar and the people whose bodies have revealed it, balancing both the science and the stories behind some of history's most captivating figures-including a French convent girl who found herself changing sex upon puberty; children who, echoing Homer's Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; a hairy family who was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations (and from whom Darwin took one of his keenest insights into heredity); and the ostrich-footed Wadoma of the Zambezi River Valley.
Stepping effortlessly from myth to molecular biology, this elegant, humane, and illuminating book is about us all.
Primera línea
IT WAS MARCH 1512, and a Florentine apothecary named Lucca Landucci was writing up his diary.
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- Título Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
- Autor Armand Marie Leroi
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Edition
- Páginas 448
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Viking Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación November 6, 2003
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780670031108 / 0670031100
- Peso 1.38 libras (0.63 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.42 x 6 x 1.39 pulgadas (21.39 x 15.24 x 3.53 cm)
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2003057619
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.043
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