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She has her mother's laugh : the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity / Carl Zimmer.

She has her mother's laugh : the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity / Carl Zimmer.
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 Adult Non Fiction   Paddington . On Loan . 18 Jun 2023
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ISBN 9781509818532 (hardback)
1509818537 (hardback)
Author Zimmer, Carl, 1966- author.
Title She has her mother's laugh : the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity / Carl Zimmer.
Publisher/Date London : Picador, 2018.
©2018
Pagination etc. x, 656 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-642) and index.
Contents note 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.
Summary Note "In this thought-provoking book, award-winning New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity, in a wide-ranging, ambitious and original investigation of a force that has crucially shaped human society--and is set to shape our future even more radically. Heredity isn't a simple matter of genes that pass from parent to child. It continues within our own bodies, as a single cell gives rise to the trillions that make up an adult. We say we inherit genes from our ancestors--using a verb that once specifically referred to kingdoms and aristocratic estates--but we also inherit other things that matter as much or more to our lives, from microbes to the technologies we use to make life more comfortable. We need a new--broader-ranging--definition of what heredity is. Weaving historical and current scientific research, original reporting and his own experience as a father of two daughters, Zimmer unpacks the urgent ethical quandries that arise from new biomedical technologies, but also long-standing presumptions about who we really are and what it is that we can pass on to future generations"--Back cover.
Subject Heredity, Human
Human genetics
Shelf Location 576.5 ZIMM
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