The wonder of genetics : the creepy, the curious, and the commonplace

The wonder of genetics : the creepy, the curious, and the commonplace / Richard V. Kowles.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kowles, Richard V.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2010.
Subjects:	Genetics > Popular works.

Table of Contents:

Genetics everywhere
Males and females : there are differences
Females are genetic mosaics
Anyone exactly like you?
Playing genetic roulette
The importance of Mama
Those awful sideshows
Why so many miscarriages?
Radiation : friend or foe?
You are what you eat : rearranged
Women in the Olympics
Marrying your cousin
The baby is not mine
Losing their punch
Genetics is big in agriculture
Amazing maize
Seedless watermelons
Eating genetically modified foods
Growing human hormones on the south 40
Gene therapy : changing your heredity
Animals have stem cells too
Sterile? So what!
Cloning : chip off the old block
An old conflict : nature versus nurture
The bad seed
Catching bad people and freeing innocent people
Free will or not
Cancer : innocent cells gone astray
Human Genome Project
Skin color
Gene pools and race
Fountain of Youth
The discord between evolution and creationism
Movies and genetic implications
Genetic misconceptions
Genetics and politics crossing paths.