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Genome : the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters

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The genome is our 100,000 or so genes. The genome is the collective recipe for the building and running of the human body.

These 100,000 genes are sited across 23 pairs of chromosomes. "Genome", a book of about 100,000 words, is divided into 23 chapters, a chapter for each chromosome.

The first chromosome, for example, contains our oldest genes, genes which we have in common with plants.By looking at our genes we can see the story of our evolution, what makes us individual, how our sexuality is determined, how we acquire language, why we are vunerable to certain diseases, how mind has arisen.

Genome also argues for the genetic foundations of free will.

While many believe that genetics proves biological determinism, Ridley will show that in fact free will is itself in the genes.

Everything that makes us human can be read in our genes.

Early in the next century we will have determined the function of every one of these 100,000 genes.

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4th Estate
185702835X / 9781857028355
Paperback / softback
599.935
16/03/2000
United Kingdom
English
344p.
20 cm
general /postgraduate /research & professional /undergraduate Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: 1999.