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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
de Ridley, Matt
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1857028341
- ISBN 13
- 9781857028348
- Librería
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Kraków, Poland
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Sobre este artículo
Fourth Estate, 1999 8vo (24 cm), VIII, 344 pp. Publisher's boards and dust jacket. "By picking one newly discovered gene from each of the 23 human chromosomes, and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. He finds genes that we share with bacteria, genes that distinguish us from chimpanzees, genes that can condemn us to cruel diseases, genes that may influence our intelligence, genes that enable us to use grammatical language, genes that guide the development of our bodies and our brains, genes that allow us to remember, genes that exhibit the strange alchemy of nature and nurture, genes that parasitise us for their own selfish ends, genes that battle with each other and genes that record the history of human migrations. From BSE to cancer, he explores the applications of genetics: the search for understanding and therapy, the horrors of eugenics, and the philosophical implications for understanding the paradox of free will." (from the blurb)
Sinopsis
The most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene, from the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue. The genome is our 100,000 or so genes. The genome is the collective recipe for the building and running of the human body. These 100,000 genes are sited across 23 pairs of chromosomes. Genome, a book of about 100,000 words, is divided into 23 chapters, a chapter for each chromosome. The first chromosome, for example, contains our oldest genes, genes which we have in common with plants. By looking at our genes we can see the story of our evolution, what makes us individual, how our sexuality is determined, how we acquire language, why we are vunerable to certain diseases, how mind has arisen. Genome also argues for the genetic foundations of free will. While many believe that genetics proves biological determinism, Ridley will show that in fact free will is itself in the genes. Everything that makes us human can be read in our genes. Early in the next century we will have determined the function of every one of these 100,000 genes.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
(PL)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 007332
- Título
- Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
- Autor
- Ridley, Matt
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1857028341
- ISBN 13
- 9781857028348
- Editorial
- Fourth Estate
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
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Sobre el vendedor
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Miembro de Biblio desde 2019
Kraków
Sobre Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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