50 genetics ideas you really need to know
Book - 2008
"Are our personalities inherited or made? What can DNA reveal about human history? How significant was the creation of Dolly the sheep? And will we soon be desiging babies to order? Mark Henderson, science editor of 'The Times', distils the central concepts of this newest of sciences in a series of 50 lucid and engaging short essays. Beginning with Darwin's theory of evolution and concluding with the most recent, and controversial, scientific advances, he shows how knowledge of our genetic code has changed our understanding of life on Earth"--Dust jacket.
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- Classical genetics
- Molecular biology
- The gnome
- Nature and nurture
- Genes and disease
- Sex, history and behaviour
- Genetics technologies
- The new genetics.