Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

Name: Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
Author: Armand Marie Leroi
ISBN: 9781101562765

Armand Marie Leroi

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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

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.

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