Title: The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage
Publisher: Scribner
Publication Date: 1995
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0684801027
ISBN 13: 9780684801025
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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A history and analysis of the Human Genome Project--also known as The Book of Man--the massive international effort mapping each of the three billion molecules that make up human DNA, chronicles the progress of the undertaking. 15,000 first printing.

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"Clear, accurate, and well written....If you want your voice to be heard in this most urgent of debates, then read this balanced and informative book."--The Sunday Times (London)
"[Offers] an enormous amount of thought-provoking material....Will serve as an incisive introduction to the exploding field of genetic engineering."--The Philadelphia Inquirer
"The message of The Book of Man is that all responsible citizens ought to achieve DNA literacy. I strongly recommend it to scientists and nonscientists alike."--Francis Crick, Nobel laureate and author of Molecules and Me
"Bodmer and McKie have done a superb job of making extremely technical genetic and molecular processes understandable to the lay reader."--Library Journal
"A lively and wide-ranging book about the accomplishments and aspirations of genetics and those who study it....Possibly the best popular treatment to date of the most glamorous and least understood of the biological sciences."--Kirkus Reviews
"Clear, accurate, and well written....If you want your voice to be heard in this most urgent of debates, then read this balanced and informative book."--The Sunday Times (London)
"[Offers] an enormous amount of thought-provoking material....Will serve as an incisive introduction to the exploding field of genetic engineering."--The Philadelphia Inquirer
"The message of The Book of Man is that all responsible citizens ought to achieve DNA literacy. I strongly recommend it to scientists and nonscientists alike."--Francis Crick, Nobel laureate and author of Molecules and Me
"Bodmer and McKie have done a superb job of making extremely technical genetic and molecular processes understandable to the lay reader."--Library Journal
"A lively and wide-ranging book about the accomplishments and aspirations of genetics and those who study it....Possibly the best popular treatment to date of the most glamorous and least understood of the biological sciences."--Kirkus Reviews
"Clear, accurate, and well written....If you want your voice to be heard in this most urgent of debates, then read this balanced and informative book."--The Sunday Times (London)
"[Offers] an enormous amount of thought-provoking material....Will serve as an incisive introduction to the exploding field of genetic engineering."--The Philadelphia Inquirer
"The message of The Book of Man is that all responsible citizens ought to achieve DNA literacy. I strongly recommend it to scientists and nonscientists alike."--Francis Crick, Nobel laureate and author of Molecules and Me
"Bodmer and McKie have done a superb job of making extremely technical genetic and molecular processes understandable to the lay reader."--Library Journal
"A lively and wide-ranging book about the accomplishments and aspirations of genetics and those who study it....Possibly the best popular treatment to date of the most glamorous and least understood of the biological sciences."--Kirkus Reviews
"Clear, accurate, and well written....If you want your voice to be heard in this most urgent of debates, then read this balanced and informative book."--The Sunday Times (London)

"[Offers] an enormous amount of thought-provoking material....Will serve as an incisive introduction to the exploding field of genetic engineering."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"The message of The Book of Man is that all responsible citizens ought to achieve DNA literacy. I strongly recommend it to scientists and nonscientists alike."--Francis Crick, Nobel laureate and author of Molecules and Me

"Bodmer and McKie have done a superb job of making extremely technical genetic and molecular processes understandable to the lay reader."--Library Journal

"A lively and wide-ranging book about the accomplishments and aspirations of genetics and those who study it....Possibly the best popular treatment to date of the most glamorous and least understood of the biological sciences."--Kirkus Reviews

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