Armand Marie Leroi

Mutants

On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

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Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http://armandleroi.com/index.htmlStepping 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 Homer'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,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-101-56276-5
EAN: 9781101562765
Produktnummer: 17994496
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 448 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'288 KB

Über den Autor

Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http://armandleroi.com/index.htmlArmand Marie Leroi has lived in South Africa, Canada, and the United States. Since 1996, he has been a lecturer in evolutionary genetics at Imperial College, London. He has published widely in technical journals on evolutionary and developmental genetics and writes occasionally for the London Review of Books.