She has her mother's laugh : the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity /
By: Zimmer, Carl [author.].
Publisher: London : Picador, 2018Description: x, 656 pages ; 27 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781509818549; 9781509818549:; 1509818545; 9781509818532; 1509818537.Subject(s): Heredity -- Genetics | Evolutionary genetics -- Popular works | Biomedical engineering | Human geneticsDDC classification: 611.01816 ZIMItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 611.01816 ZIM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Lost Checked out | 10/02/2023 | 0081551 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-642) and index.
Part I. A stroke on the cheek -- The light trifle of his substance -- Traveling across the face of time -- This race should end with them -- Attagirl -- Part II. Wayward DNA -- An evening's revelry -- The sleeping branches -- Individual Z -- Mongrels -- Nine foot high complete -- Ed and Fred -- Part III. The pedigree within -- Ex ovo omnia -- Witches'-broom -- Chimeras -- Part IV. Other channels -- You, my friend, are a wonderland -- Flowering monsters -- The teachable ape -- Part V. The sun chariot -- Yet did he greatly dare -- Orphaned at conception -- The planet's heirs.
Here Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in a sweeping overview of a force that shaped human society - a force set to shape our future even more radically.
Shortlisted for Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction 2018.