An Intelligent Person's Guide to Genetics - Softcover

Woolfson, Adrian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585678104 ISBN 13: 9781585678105

Publisher: Overlook Press, 2006

Synopsis

An in-depth and accessible survey of the most exciting and controversial discipline in modern science. Recent radical developments in genetics focus on a revolutionary new type of "synthetic" biology, which aims not just to understand how living things work, but to build them from scratch. At the same time, new research shows that Neanderthal man was a distinct type of human - but not our ancestor. The DNA record is an imperfect time machine but it can help reconstruct our past - and, almost inevitable, shape our future, as mankind will almost certainly soon be able to redesign itself. But how will such work be guided? What is needed is a manifesto for life, which acclaimed author Adrian Woolfson delivers in AN INTELLIGENT PERSON S GUIDE TO GENETICS, his examination of life and its future possibilities.

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Review

...intelligently provocative' - New Scientist 'For "intelligent" read literate. Do not confuse this book with DNA for Dummies... Science made clear, not simple... Hugely enjoyable' - Tim Radford, Guardian 'Charming... as informative as it is readable. [Woolfson] has an ear for catchy descriptions that make science understandable and memorable... reading this book feels rather like having a conversation over dinner with a cultured, witty, and well-informed companion' - The Lancet

About the Author

Adrian Woolfson is the author of Life Without Genes (Flamingo), described as 'gloriously playful, enticing, eye-opening and heartening' by the Scotsman. He is a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge and Katherine Darwin Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1585678104
• ISBN 13: 9781585678105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224