Genetics category: 1528 books
Sex Itself
The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Human genomes are 99.9 percent identical—with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking about sex represented by the unalterable, simple,...
by Mary Jane West-Eberhard
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003
The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of modern findings on behavior, genetics, endocrinology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory and phylogenetics to show the...
Pillars of Evolution
Fundamental principles of the eco-evolutionary process
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Pillars of Evolution provides a fresh and provocative perspective on adaptive evolution. Readers new to the study of evolution will find a refreshing new insight that establishes evolutionary biology as a rigorous and predictive science, whilst practicing biologists will discover a provocative book...
Troublesome Science
The Misuse of Genetics and Genomics in Understanding Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
It is well established that all humans today, wherever they live, belong to one single species. Yet even many people who claim to abhor racism take for granted that human “races” have a biological reality. In Troublesome Science, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall provide a lucid and forceful critique...
Humanimal
How Homo sapiens Became Nature's Most Paradoxical Creature—A New Evolutionary History
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
“Rutherford describes Humanimal as being about the paradox of how our evolutionary journey turned ‘an otherwise average ape’ into one capable of creating complex tools, art, music, science, and engineering. It’s an intriguing question, one his book sets against descriptions of the infinitely...
Molecular Pathology
The Molecular Basis of Human Disease
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009
Molecular Pathology: The Molecular Basis of Human Disease provides a current and comprehensive view of the molecular basis and mechanisms of human disease. Combining accepted principles with broader theoretical concepts and with contributions from a group of experts, the book looks into disease processes...
by Arcady R. Mushegian
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
This book provides an overview of computational analysis of genes and genomes, and of some most notable findings that come out of this work. Foundations of Comparative Genomics presents a historical perspective, beginning with early analysis of individual gene sequences, to present day comparison...
by Dominic W. S. Wong
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
Clear and concise, this easy-to-use book offers an introductory course on the language of gene cloning, covering microbial, plant, and mammalian systems. It presents the nuts and bolts of gene cloning in a well-organized and accessible manner. Part I of this book outlines the essentials of biology...
by Pauline M. Doran, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 1995
The emergence and refinement of techniques in molecular biology has changed our perceptions of medicine, agriculture and environmental management. Scientific breakthroughs in gene expression, protein engineering and cell fusion are being translated by a strengthening biotechnology industry into revolutionary...
How to Build a Better Human
An Ethical Blueprint
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Medicine has recently discovered spectacular tools for human enhancement. Yet to date, it has failed to use them well, in part because of ethical objections. Meanwhile, covert attempts flourish to enhance with steroids, mind-enhancing drugs, and cosmetic surgery—all largely unstudied scientifically.
The...
Summary & Analysis of The Tangled Tree
A Radical New History of Life | A Guide to the Book by David Quammen
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2019
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The Tangled Tree is David Quammen's detailed, fascinating, and artful look into the history of evolutionary...
A Statistical Approach to Genetic Epidemiology
Concepts and Applications, with an e-Learning Platform
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
This is the second edition of the successful textbook written by the prize-winning scientist Andreas Ziegler, former President of the German Chapter of the International Biometric Society, and Inke König, who has been teaching the subject over many years.
The book gives a comprehensive introduction...
Epigenetic Landscapes
Drawings as Metaphor
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Devised in the 1940s by the biologist C. H. Waddington, the epigenetic landscape is a metaphor for how gene regulation modulates cellular development. As a scientific model, it fell out of use in the late 1960s but returned at the beginning of the twenty-first century with the advent of big-data genomic...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Advances in genetics, molecular biology and gene delivery technologies in recent years have led to new gene therapy strategies for treatment of a variety of diseases. This book gives a comprehensive overview of the present status and future directions of gene delivery systems and therapeutic strategies...