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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

Armand Marie Leroi

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#3120 of 3,809 books · #394 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize (2004).

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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Publisher
Penguin
ISBN-13
9781101562765
Topics
GeneticsHuman body developmentGenetic mutations

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