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A powerful challenge to the increasingly orthodox claim that all of human existence is controlled by our DNA. Lewontin questions the assumptions that have been made based on this belief and its influence on the direction of biological research, in particular the Human Genome Project, which seeks to determine the complete DNA sequence that makes up human genes. 'The most subversive book to be published in English this year' - Independent
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A short but powerful book, the latest in the continuing debate between the genetic reductionists (such as Richard Dawkins, John Maynard Smith and E.O. Wilson) and those who argue for a rather more complex relationship between genes and the environment (such as Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Rose and Niles Eldredge). Lewontin is a forceful writer and this is an effective statement (largely because it is so short) of the case against the "selfish gene".
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Professor R C Lewontin is a leading geneticist. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, he also holds the Alexander Gassiz chair in zoology at Harvard University.
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 014100035X
- ISBN 13 9780141000350
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
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