Genetics & Genomics
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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
$14.95 Add to cartAn insider’s view on bringing extinct species back to life
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary- Series: Princeton Science Library #107
- Author: Shapiro, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0691209006
- Language: English
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Living with Our Genes: The Groundbreaking Book About the Science of Personality, Behavior, and Genetic Destiny
$20.00 Add to cart“A lucid, thought-provoking account of the case for ‘nature’ as a determinant of personality.”–Peter D. Kramer, Author of Listening to Prozac and Should You Leave?
Nowhere is the nature-nurture cont- Author: Hamer, Dean H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: February 16 1999
- ISBN10: 0385485840
- Language: English
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Chasing Captain America: How Advances in Science, Engineering, and Biotechnology Will Produce a Superhuman
$15.95 Read moreCould we create a real-life superhero by changing human biology itself? The form and function of the human body, once entirely delimited by nature, are now fluid concepts thanks to recent advances in … [more below]
- Author: Zehr, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1770411992
- Language: English
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Genes: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
In this exploration of the concept of the gene, Jonathan Slack looks at the discovery, nature, and role of genes in both evolution and development- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Slack, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0192856707
- Language: English
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
$18.95 Add to cartThe Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today. In the eighteenth century, theologian William Paley developed a famous metaphor for creationism: that of the skilled watchm
- Author: Dawkins, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351491
- Language: English
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How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don’t) Say about Human Difference
$14.95 Read moreRace is not a biological reality.
Racism thrives on our not knowing this.In fact, racist pseudoscience has become so commonplace that it can be hard to spot. But its toxic effects on society are plain
- Author: Rutherford, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 14, 2021
- ISBN10: 161519830X
- Language: English
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
$18.99 Add to cartA preeminent geneticist, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine, hunts the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes to answer the biggest question of them all: how did our ancestors become human?
Neander- Author: Pääbo, Svante
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 24 2015
- ISBN10: 0465054951
- Language: English
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The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
$19.99 Add to cartA breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological sys… [more below]
- Author: Webb, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1541797922
- Language: English
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
$18.99 Add to cart“Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . .
- Author: Ridley, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0060894083
- Language: English
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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin’s data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery.
Brenda Maddox tells a powerfu
- Author: Maddox, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0060985089
- Language: English
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As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
$35.00 Read moreThe thrilling and terrifying history of genetic engineering
In 2018, scientists manipulated the DNA of human babies for the first time. As biologist and historian Matthew Cobb shows in As Gods, this a
- Author: Cobb, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1541602854
- Language: English
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Cartoon Guide to Genetics
$23.99 Add to cartHave you ever asked yourself:
Are spliced genes the same as mended Levis?
Watson and Crick? Aren’t they a team of British detectives?
Plant sex? Can they do that?
Is Genetic Mutation the name of one of t
- Series: Cartoon Guide
- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 14 1991
- ISBN10: 0062730991
- Language: English
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Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins
$34.95 Add to cartWho are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species differ from the extinct hominins that came before us? In this accessible, lushly illustrated account palaeoarchaeologist Pau
- Series: Rediscovered
- Author: Pettitt, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0500252637
- Language: English
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Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
$19.99 Read moreA Nobel Prize-winning biologist’s “engaging and witty” (Forbes) memoir tells the riveting story of his race to discover the inner workings of biology’s most important molecule
Everyone has heard of- Author: Ramakrishnan, Venki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1541604490
- Language: English
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A Feeling for the Organism, 10th Aniversary Edition: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock
$28.00 Add to cartFor much of her life she worked alone, brilliant but eccentric, with ideas that made little sense to her colleagues. Yet before DNA and the molecular revolution, Barbara McClintock’s tireless analysis
- Author: Keller, Evelyn Fox
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0805074589
- Language: English
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Genes, Giants, Monsters, and Men: The Surviving Elites of the Cosmic War and Their Hidden Agenda
$19.95 Add to cartConsider the possibility that the history of the human race is not as simple as what has been taught in classroom textbooks. Consider the possibility that the evolutionary scientific explanation for m
- Author: Farrell, Joseph P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 1936239086
- Language: English
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A Child Is Born: The Fifth Edition of the Beloved Classic–Completely Revised and Updated
$26.00 Add to cartThe miracle of life–for a new generation. The completely revised fifth edition of the beloved classic offers an astonishing glimpse of the world within the womb alongside authoritative advice for exp… [more below]
- Author: Nilsson, Lennart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0593157966
- Language: English
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The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them
$19.99 Read moreThe future of medicine is already here. Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, leads the charge with his contributions to the practice of precision medicine, a concept that has
- Author: Ashley, Euan Angus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1250234980
- Language: English
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
$19.99 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discov… [more below]
- Author: Quammen, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1476776636
- Language: English
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She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
$22.00 Add to cart2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist
“Science book of the year”—The Guardian
One of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018
One of Publishers Weekly‘s Top Ten Books of 2018
One- Author: Zimmer, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1101984619
- Language: English
