 | Why We Do It: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene
by Niles Eldredge
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Description: A major refutation of the almighty status of genes in evolution and human behavior. Over the last thirty years, many scientists have come to insist that our behavior is governed by our genes—above all when it comes to sex, which, we are told, is how genes perpetuate themselves. ...more
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 | Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome
by Henry Gee
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Description: Although sequencing the human genome has brought speculation about all kinds of results--from curing to cloning--another sort of scientific payoff is in the works. In Jacob's Ladder, former UCLA professor Henry Gee shifts focus from the applied science of genomics to the basic research questions that can be addressed with...more
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 | Adam's Curse: A Future without Men
by Bryan Sykes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Description: Bryan Sykes follows up The Seven Daughters of Eve with the equally challenging and well-written Adam's Curse. This time, instead of following humanity's heritage back to the first women, Sykes looks forward to a possible future without men. The seeds of the book's topics were sown when Sykes met a...more
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 | The Seven Daughters of Eve
by Bryan Sykes
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Description: The national bestseller that reveals how we are descended from seven prehistoric women. One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters of Eve reveals the remarkable story behind a groundbreaking scientific discovery. After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological...more
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 | Molecular Biology of the Gene
by James Watson
Publisher: Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
Description: With the participation of four new co-authors, Molecular Biology of the Gene has been thoroughly updated and expanded to give comprehensive and authoritative coverage of this fast-moving field, while retaining the lively, incisive writing style for which earlier editions were ...more
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 | Computational Biology and Genome Informatics
by Cathy H. Wu, Paul P. Wang
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Description: This book contains articles written by experts on a wide range of topics that are associated with the analysis and management of biological information at the molecular level. It contains chapters on RNA and protein structure analysis, DNA computing, sequence mapping, genome comparison, gene expression data mining, metabolic network modeling,...more
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 | Antimicrobial Peptides - No. 186 (CIBA Foundation Symposia Series)
by CIBA Foundation Symposium
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Description: Antimicrobial Peptides Chairman: Hans G. Boman 1994 Antimicrobial peptides are small peptides directly encoded by genes (in contrast to the better known antibiotics) which show a broad range of activity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, fungi, mycobacteria and some enveloped viruses. They were originally identified in insects, but are also...more
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 | The Genetic Testing of Children (Human Molecular Genetics Series)
by Angus Clarke
Publisher: Academic Pr
Description: The book focuses on the ethical and social uses involved in the genetic testing of children. The perspective and experiences of geneticists, ethicists and affected families are presented in authoritative and balanced reviews of this increasingly controversial subject. Some of the subjects covered include: confidentiality; potential abuses of genetic information;...more
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 | Genes: The Fight for Life
by Brian J. Ford
Publisher: Cassell
Description: "Pasteur," Brian Ford believes, "did us all a great disservice." His germ theory of disease bequeathed to us a fear of microbes, and consequently an aversion to unicellular life. This aversion is only heightened by those biologists for whom the cell is merely a dumb vehicle for selfish DNA. ...more
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 | Ecology and Genetics: An Essay on the Nature of Life and the Problem of Genetic Engineering
by Arjun Makhijani
Publisher: Apex Pr
Description: The central thesis of this book is that the genetic structures of living beings are internal biological expressions of the ecosystems they need to survive. That is why living beings contribute to the reproduction of ecosystems by their everyday acts of living, in a global-scale symbiosis. Inter-species genetic...more
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