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- Title
- Life Without Genes
- Author
- Woolfson, Adrian
- Publisher
- FLAMINGO
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0006548741
- ISBN 13
- 9780006548744
- Item weight
- 322 grams
Can life exist without genes? What will living things be like in the future and how did life evolve in the first place? ‘“Life Without Genes” is gloriously playful, enticing, eye-opening and heartening.’ Scotsman
‘Lucid and entertaining…From Airfix kit-inspired, “Just-So” stories to lucid descriptions of the work of the mathematician Ilya Prigogine, Woolfson is a virtuoso in full command of extraordinary material.’ Simon Inges
Taking us beyond biology and genes, Adrian Woolfson changes our view of the future forever. Might giraffes grow taller than skyscrapers? How could crocodiles stay underwater for more than an hour? Is it possible to turn a stickleback into a daffodil, or a tiger into a porcupine? Woolfson asks us to imagine a hypermarket stocked with every possible type of toy in the universe, to see DNA as a infinitely flexible Lego, and he takes us on swirling Peter Pan-like trips through our own genes, showing us the full scope (and perils) of genetic engineering. A uniquely accessible work of science, with shades of Huxley, Lewis Carroll and Darwin, ‘Life Without Genes’ presents a truly startling vision of a future where the consequences of our current genetic experiments turn out to be both stranger and more foreign than we ever imagined.
‘Fine-woven from dreams, swooping around the outer edges of the imaginable, “Life Without Genes” takes us to some mind-boggling conceptual spaces, conjuring into existence frightening Borgesian worlds, to make us question our assumptions about life…Wildly, ferally enjoyable.’ Lisa Gee, Scotland on Sunday
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About the Author
Adrian Woolfson was educated in London, Cambridge and Oxford. He is a Wellcome Research Fellow at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and the Charles and Katherine Darwin Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge.
’A welcome antidote to the naïve genetic determinism all too prevalent in popular science, and a pleasure to read. You have nothing to lose but your genes!’ IAN STEWART, author of Does God Play Dice? and Life’s Other Secret
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