Mutants: on genetic variety and the human bodyStepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it—a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing HomerÂ's Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity. This elegant, humane, and engaging book “captures what we know of the development of what makes us human” (Nature). |
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User Review - Ranger - GoodreadsActually I am just finishing up the last few pages, but it's as good as done. Engaging info, well-written. I am wishing I had a 2nd edition in hand, as this book is nearly 10 years old. Read full review
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Contents
Mutants An introduction | 3 |
A Perfect Join On embryos | 23 |
The Last Judgement On first parts | 65 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Mutants: on genetic variety and the human body |
| Author | Armand Marie Leroi |
| Edition | reprint, illustrated |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 2005 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Dec 6, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0142004820, 9780142004821 |
| Length | 431 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Abnormalities, Human Abnormalities, Human - Genetic aspects Abnormalities, Human/ Genetic aspects/ History Human anatomy Human anatomy - Variation Human anatomy/ Variation/ History Mutation (Biology) Mutation (Biology)/ History Science / Life Sciences / Biology / General Science / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics Science / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology Social Science / Anthropology / Physical |
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