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Springer-Verlag New York Inc. Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to the Bell Curve
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Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes
Analysis of Genes and Genomes author: Hartl, Daniel L.; publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publrs.,U.S.
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Internet-linked Introduction to Genes and DNA
A journey into the heart of a cell, covering the structure, function and importance of this unit of life. It outlines the history of genetic science and debates some of the issues, such as genetic engineering, cloning and GM foods. Links to relevant Internet sites are included. author: Claybourne, Anna; publisher: Usborne Pub.
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Genes, Memes and Human History
What is the history of human populations? How are cultural traditions maintained and changed over time? What led to the emergence of marked social inequalities? These and other questions are addressed and answered in this text, an application of neo-Darwinian evolutionary ideas to the human past. author: Shennan, Stephen; publisher: Thames & H.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K Genes on the Menu: Facts for Knowledge-based Decisions
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Analysis of Genes and Genomes
This is an introduction to the theoretical and practical basis of genetic engineering, gene cloning and molecular biology. All aspects of genetic engineering in the post-genomic era are covered, beginning with the basics of DNA structure and DNA metabolism. author: Reece, R.J.R.; publisher: Wiley
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Genes and DNA
This work explores the world of the ever-advancing science of genes and DNA, from the basics of genes and their function as the code for life through variation in families and heredity, to the wide-ranging applications of DNA technology that are so relevant in the 21st century. author: Walker, Richard; publisher: Kingfisher Bks.
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Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan Mean Genes (Unabridged)
Why do we want - and do - so many things that are bad for us? We vow to lose those extra five pounds, put money in the bank, and mend neglected relationships...
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Genes, Peoples and Languages
The author answers the question of whether the languages and genes of living people contain a historical record of the human species. The book offers a tour of the major discoveries in genetic anthropology, explaining among other things why there is no genetic basis for racial classification. author: Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca; publisher: Penguin
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Genes 8
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Language of the Genes, The
This study is an attempt to bring genetics and evolution more into the public domain. It looks at genetic engineering and the social issues it raises, as well as considerations of cultural, demographic and linguistic history. author: Jones, Steve; publisher: Flamingo
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Oxford University Press Inc, USA Are We Hardwired?: The Role of Genes in Human Behavior
The notion that our chromosomes might dictate some of our behaviour makes DNA a four-letter word to strict nurturists. Yet there is strong evidence that genes do exert an influence over some part of nearly of our personalities. Immunologist William R. Clark and biochemist Michael Grunstein tackle this sticky issue in <I>Are We Hardwired?: The Role of Genes in Human Behavior</I>, an even-handed explanation and critique of current thinking on the topic. Exploring twin and family studies, biochemical research into the nervous systems of humans and less complex animals, and specific qualities like aggression, eating and sexual preference, the authors show that as with most other phenotypic expression, genes interact with each other and environmental factors to produce tendencies toward behaviour.<p>Their thinking is more complex than the journalistic attachment to aggression genes and other such simplifications; they would rather see and understand the intricate array of genes and the proteins they help to create than blame Johnny's brutality on a particular lonely stretch of his Y chromosome. This is exemplified by their refusal to use the word intelligence except when required for historical accuracy; this single concept has caused much more trouble than understanding since its inception. The prose is quiet and easygoing, the scientific explanations are clear but pull no punches, and the authors take great pains to expose the tremendous dangers of eugenics, making <I>Are We Hardwired?</I> one of the clearest, most useful books yet published on the nurture/nature debate. --<I>Rob Lightner</I>
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Oxford University Press Inc, USA Spiderwebs and Silk: Tracing Evolution from Molecules to Genes to Phenotypes
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Oxford Paperbacks The Art of Genes: How Organisms Make Themselves
Genetics is a complex subject and many of the metaphors writers use to explain it-- in particular those which draw facile comparisons between genetics and computing--are seriously misleading. <p> Enrico Coen's erudite code-to-carcass account of plant and animal development is set to change all that. Besotted with the way genes recreate forms over and over with unerring accuracy, we tend, Coen argues, to assume that the blueprints for these copies are entirely contained within the genes. Instead, Coen would have us imagine an organism's genetic code as the record of an artist's mood, immediately prior to starting a painting. Each organism, Coen argues, is like a painting--the unique product of creative genes, reacting constructively to the appearance of the canvas as it develops. What maintains fidelity from generation to generation is not the ability of genes to copy whole bodies, but their faithful recapitulation of artistic moods. Imagine Leonardo, gripped with recurrent amnesia, painting the Mona Lisa, over and over and over again. No painting that results is really a copy and neither is any organism. <p> At first glance, these artistic analogies appear dangerously anthropomorphic; so Coen has taken extreme care to define his terms and say what each analogy is meant to achieve. The result is not the easiest book--but who cares about that? Genetics is not the easiest subject and only Coen, to date, has captured its extraordinary beauty and complexity in terms the general reader can enjoy and--more important--trust. --<I>Simon Ings</I>
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Prentice Hall Essential Genes
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Prentice Hall Genes 8 - Student Handbook
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McGraw Hill Higher Education Genetics: From Genes to Genomes: Solutions Manual & Study Guide
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McGraw Hill Higher Education Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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Alpha Books The Complete Idiot's Guide to Decoding Your Genes (Complete Idiot's Guide S.)
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HarperPerennial Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
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Cambridge University Press The Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering (Canto S.)
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Yale University Press Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution: The Homeobox (Terry Lectures S.)
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Usborne Publishing Ltd Internet-linked Introduction to Genes and DNA (Internet-linked Introductions)
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Arrow T-Shirt and Genes
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The MIT Press What Genes Can't Do (Basic Bioethics S.)
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Oxford University Press Inc, USA Geopolitics and the Green Revolution: Wheat, Genes and the Cold War
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Collins Educational AQA (B) Biology: Genes and Genetic Engineering (Collins Student Support Materials S.)
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The Belknap Press Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements
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Penguin Books Ltd Genes, Peoples and Languages (Penguin Press Science S.)
Jared Diamond says, It would be a slight exaggeration to say that LL Cavalli-Sforza studies everything about everybody, because actually he is only interested in what genes, languages, archaeology, and culture can teach us about the history and migrations of everybody for the last several hundred thousand years. Cavalli-Sforza has been the leading architect of a revolution (even a paradigm shift) in human genetics since the 1960s. Because of his work, geneticists no longer think that the human species is divided into colour-coded races. Cavalli-Sforza's studies of the transmission of family names in Italy, of the relationship between human genes and languages, of migration and marriage, are the benchmarks of our biological self-understanding. <p><I>Genes, Peoples, and Languages</I> is less personal than Cavalli-Sforza's preceding book, <I>The Great Human Diasporas: The History of Diversity and Evolution</I>. And it is far more compact that the magisterial <I>The History and Geography of Human Genes</I>. Instead, it is an excellent overview of Cavalli-Sforza's many-faceted approach to human history and our present condition. It is that rarest of achievements, holistic without any trace of mushy-mindedness. <I>--Mary Ellen Curtin</I>
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Blackwell Publishing Genes and Behavior: Nature-Nurture Interplay Explained
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Flamingo The Language of the Genes
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Prentice Hall Genes 8
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HarperCollins Blue Genes
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd From Genes to Genomes: Concepts and Applications of DNA Technology
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Kingfisher Books Ltd Genes and DNA (Kingfisher Knowledge S.)
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Rodale International Ltd The Perfect Fit Diet: The Customised Science-Based Plan for YOUR Genes, Tastes and Lifestyle
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Anchor Books The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired Into Our Genes
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Prentice Hall Success!: The Need to Succeed Is in Your Genes, the Way to Succeed Is in This Book
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Flamingo In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny
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Black Spring Press Ltd High Priests, Quantum Genes
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Algora Publishing,US The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes
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Peroxisomal Disorders and Regulation of Genes
In most peroxisomal disorders the nervous system is severely affected which explains the clinical and community burden they represent. This book focuses not only on the mutations causing these inherited illnesses, but also on mechanisms that regulate, suppress or enhance expression of genes. author: ; publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
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Genes and the Agents of Life
This book undertakes to rethink the place of the individual in the biological sciences. author: Wilson, Robert; publisher: Camb.U.P.
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Genes in the Environment
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Genes and Insurance
Considers problems associated with genetic information in an age of declining welfare provision, and offers direction for future policy. author: Radetzki, Marcus; publisher: Camb.U.P.
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Facts on File Inc Gene Therapy: Treating Disease by Repairing Genes (New Biology S.)
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From Genes to Genomes
In this text, the author provides a balanced coverage of traditional and contemporary topics taught within an intermediate course in molecular genetics. author: Dale, J.W.; publisher: Wiley
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Bloomsbury Mapping Human History: Discovering Our Past Through Our Genes
As the subtitle of <I>Mapping Human History</I> tells us, Steve Olson's fascinating new book is about <I>Discovering the Past through our Genes</I>. One of the few things to separate us humans from the chimps is our curiosity about ourselves and our history. Until very recently we have been frustrated by our own prehistoric ancestors' failure to record where exactly they came from or where they were going to. The archaeological record only provides the bare bones and stones of the story. Thanks, however, to the modern scientific miracle of biomolecular gene mapping, we can now track the movements of our ancestors and relatives in surprising detail. Just as forensic science can catch out an American president's peccadillo with an intern, so can we catch out our predecessors who left genetic evidence of the seed they scattered as they migrated around the Earth. We all carry our family history with us in almost every cell of our bodies.<p> As a professional science journalist who has worked for the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Genomic Research in Washington DC, Olson is very well placed to communicate the scientific details of this emerging story in an eminently readable form for the general reader. <I>Mapping Human History</I> is a well-researched exploration (with full notes of sources and index) of our current understanding of the diaspora of modern humans out of Africa, a mere 100,000 or so years ago. As he is at pains to point out, every single one of the six billion people on the planet today is descended from the small group of anatomically modern humans who once lived in eastern Africa--we are all Africans despite the superficial differences which racists try to make a meal of. While telling the remarkable stories of the travels of different populations around the world, which have resulted in the huge range of cultural differences, Olson constantly reminds us of our biological connectedness one with another.--<I>Douglas Palmer</I>
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Harvard University Press Making Genes, Making Waves: A Social Ativist in Science
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The MIT Press From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences
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BMM The Last of the Hitlers: The Story of Adolf Hitler's British Nephew and the Amazing Pact to Make Sure His Genes Die Out
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Mean Genes
This is a look at why our toughest battles are often with ourselves. This book examines the issues that most affect our lives: body image, money, addiction, violence, and the search for love and happiness. It shows that our struggles are against our own genes and offers steps for beating them. author: Burnham, Terry; publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Feed Your Genes Right
Eat to Turn Off Disease-Causing Genes and Slow Down Aging author: Challem, Jack; publisher: Wiley
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Biotechnology and Biopharmaceuticals: Transforming Proteins and Genes into Drugs
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iUniverse.com Genome: The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific Adventure of Our Time--The Attempt to Map All the Genes in the Human Body
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Tyndale House Publishers Blue Genes: Breaking Free from the Chemical Imbalances That Affect Your Moods, Your Mind, Your Life, and Your Loved Ones (Focus on the Family Books)
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Vital Health Publishing,U.S. Trace Your Genes to Health: Use Your Family Tree to Guide Your Diet, Enhance Your Immune System and Overcome Chronic Disease
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Genes Not Guns
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Solutions Manual/Study Guide to Accompany Genetics: from Genes to Genomes
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High Priests, Quantum Genes
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Gods, Genes, and Consciousness
Nonhuman Intervention in Human History author: Ward, Paul Von; publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Co.,U.S.
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Eat Your Genes
Food safety scares continue to cause public concern, but far more unnoticed is the way that genetically engineered food is entering our diet. This book looks at how this situation came about, revealing where responsibility lies for this food reaching the market. author: Nottingham, Stephen; publisher: Zed Bks.
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Genes on the Couch
Brings together some of the top clinicians working within an evolutionary framework for the purpose of defining the new field of evolutionary psychotherapy and outlining new treatment approaches. author: ; publisher:
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Feed Your Genes Right: Eat to Turn Off Disease-Causing Genes and Slow Down Aging
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Jones and Bartlett Publishers International Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes: Analysis of Genes and Genomes
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Oxford University Press A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes and Society
<I>A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes and Society</I> is a collection o f essays by James D Watson, the American co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and one of the most famous scientists alive. When his groundbreaking work on the molecular blueprint of life was done in 1953, Watson was still only 25 years old and was working in the University of Cambridge with the English scientist Francis Crick. So important was their work, that both Crick and Watson were awarded the Nobel prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1962. Three years later, as a professor at Harvard, Watson wrote a seminal text book on <I>Molecular Biology of the Gene</I>. Then, in 1968, his runaway bestseller <I>The Double Helix</I>--the behind-the-scenes version of how Crick and he had worked together to crack the problem of DNA structure--soon became the most-read popular science book ever. Brilliantly written, the book raised many hackles in the scientific world, especially in the rather conservative and secretive world of British science at the time.<p>Now some 32 years later, both men are senior citizens, but both are still active scientists in different ways. Watson tells how his career path moved from a doer of science to my later roles as a manager of science...and occasional governmental advisor or bureaucrat. Designed for the general reader, the essays address what Watson regards as the big issues of the day: the War on Cancer, the arrival of Recombinant DNA procedures, the Human Genome Project, and GM foods, plus autobiographical sketches. Jim Watson's subsequent role as a statesman for science might seem an unlikely one for such a mercurial character but as these essays show, he has lost none of his magical touch with words and is never afraid to speak his mind, no matter how non-pc the result might be. As he says moving forward will not be for the faint of heart.--<I>Douglas Palmer</I>
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Oxford University Press Genes, Girls and Gamow
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