Engineer In The Garden: From the Idea of Heredity to the Creation of Life Tapa blanda - 1995

Paperback. Very Good.

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London: Pimlico, 1995. Paperback. Very Good/No d/j as Published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book N.B. Previous owners inscription to ffep. reading crease to spine.

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Pimlico, 1995. Paperback . Fine. New paperback. Some slight shelf wear but content fine and unread

London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 3987 pages, indexed. The bookhas been covered in contact and has an owenrship signature on the fron end paper, else appears unread. "In The Engineer in the Garden, Colin Tudge leads us through the intricacies of genetic theory - from its earliest classical form, to plant and animal breeding, to cloning and the Human Genome Project. He explains and questions the presumptions and ramifications of every scientific assertion about "advance," including sociobiology, genetic counseling, the creation of novel vaccines, and the possibility of prolonging human life. Cautious but not alarmist, Tudge argues that these scientific advances have far outpaced our thinking about them, and charges us to recognize that since science is part of the social order, scientific literacy is no longer a privilege of but a requirement for citizenship in the global community. Our response to these new… Leer más

ISBN: 9780712661683
Pimlico | 01 January 1995
Paperback | 398 pages
This study details the various results that can be achieved from tampering with genetic material from ensuring the birth of a male rather than a female child, creating a cow with a vast milk yield, or creating mice that are programmed to die of cancer. The author indicates that already farmers release genetically re-shaped plants into the fields to produce nicer-looking apples, and that whole species of animals can be saved from extinction by genetic techniques. However, the book questions whether the geneticists actually know what they are doing, or are they just following their noses, as did our ancestors, when they developed fire and the axe and destroyed the forests.