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Mutants by Armand Marie Leroi

Mutants

On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

By Armand Marie Leroi

By Armand Marie Leroi

By Armand Marie Leroi

By Armand Marie Leroi

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    Stepping 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, and engaging book “captures what we know of the development of what makes us human” (Nature).

    About Mutants

    Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http://armandleroi.com/index.html

    Stepping 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, and engaging book “captures what we know of the development of what makes us human” (Nature).

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    About Armand Marie Leroi

    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… More about Armand Marie Leroi

    About Armand Marie Leroi

    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… More about Armand Marie Leroi

    Product Details

    Category: Science

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 25, 2005 | 448 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780142004821

    Category: Science

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 25, 2005 | 448 Pages | ISBN 9781101562765

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    Praise

    “Combines meticulous historical research, [and] brand-new genetic understanding to tell an absorbing tale.” —Matt Ridley, author of Genome

    “A marvelous accomplishment. A good look a the amazing prospect before us as we decode the human genome…” —The Seattle Times

    Table Of Contents

    List of Illustrations
    Prologue

    I. Mutants (An introduction) 3
    II. A Perfect Join (On embryos) 23
    III. The Last Judgement (On first parts) 65
    IV. Cleppies (On arms and legs) 105
    V. Flesh of my Flesh, Bone of my Bone (On skeletons) 137
    VI. The War with the Cranes (On growth) 169
    VII. The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole (On gender) 217
    VIII. A Fragile Bubble (On skin) 247
    IX. The Sober Life (On ageing) 297
    X. Anthropometamorphosis (An epilogue) 335

    Acknowledgements 357
    Notes 359
    Bibliography 389
    Index 421

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