This resourceful supplement is intended to help students enhance their understanding of the text and course material.
Describes modern developments in the field of genetics, discussing the mapping of the human genome, the genetic causes of afflictions, and genetic modification.
Green, R. E., J. Krause, A. W. Briggs, T. Maricic, U. Stenzel, M. Kircher, N. Patterson, H. Li, W. Zhai, M. H. Fritz, et al. ... Enard, W., P. Khaitovich, J. Klose, S. Zollner, F. Heissig, P. Giavalisco, K. NieseltStruwe, E. Muchmore, ...
This unique, exploratory volume discusses the ethical, cultural and philosophical issues surrounding the search for the 'book of life', focusing on the mapping of the human genome in Britain, the USA and Europe.
I. E. Human Genetics and Society
As the geneticist A.W.F. Edwards wrote, “Most of the information that distinguishes populations is hidden in the correlation structure of the data.” The 15% genetic difference between races, in other words, is not random noise but ...
This book explores the many prospects, challenges and ethical questions that surround the engineering of our reproductive cells.
Garrod, “Incidence of Alkaptonuria.” L Ibid., 1616. 2. Ibid. 3. Ibid., 1618. % Ibid. L Ibid., 1620. i Ibid. i Garrod, Inborn Errors of Metabolism; Garrod, Scriver, and Childs, Garrod's Inborn Factors in Disease, 9.
This is a book about contemporary developments in the scientific understanding of genetics, and the ways in which these are transforming possible relations between humans and the world around them.
The essays in this collection examine how human heredity was understood between the end of the First World War and the early 1970s.