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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters of Eve reveals the remarkable story behind a groundbreaking scientific discovery. After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Double Helix (Scribner Classic) by James Watson Publisher Comments The classic personal account of one of the great scientific discoveries of the century. By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Cartoon Guide To Genetics Updated Edition by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments Illustrates, simplifies, and humor-coats the important principles of classical and modern genetics and their experimental bases, with amusing anecdotes about how the ancients tried to explain inheritance and sex determination.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Impact of the Gene: From Mendel's Peas to Designer Babies by Colin Tudge Publisher Comments How genetics, and the technologies that arise from it, will affect the way we live in the twenty-first centuryIn the mid-nineteenth century, a Moravian friar made a discovery that was to shape not only the future of science but also that of the human... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements by Austin Burt and Robert Trivers Publisher Comments In evolution, most genes survive and spread within populations because they increase the ability of their hosts (or their close relatives) to survive and reproduce. But some genes spread in spite of being harmful to the host organism: by distorting... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $18.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People by John Harris Publisher Comments Decisive biotechnological interventions in the lottery of human life, to enhance our bodies and brains and perhaps irreversibly change our genetic makeup, have been widely rejected as unethical and undesirable, and have often met with extreme hostility.... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA by Mark Schultz Publisher Comments Lets face it: From adenines to zygotes, from cytokinesis to parthenogenesis, even the basics of genetics can sound utterly alien. So who better than an alien to explain it all? Enter Bloort 183, a scientist from an asexual alien race threatened by... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter Publisher Comments In this triumphant true story of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in science today, Venter tells of the unparalleled drama in the quest to map the human genome--a tale that involves as much politics as science. 16-page b&w photo... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley From Powells.com Matt Ridley's Genome is one of the best, and most popular, works of popular science of recent years, in line with such instant classics as Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb or Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe. Ever since James Watson and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rough Guide To Genes & Cloning 1ST Edition by Jess Buxton Special Offer For a limited time, buy a new copy of any of the books in Rough Guide's Popular Culture section, and get The Rough Guide to World Party CD free!... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $7.67 Sale - Trade Paper
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Not a Chimp: The Hunt to Find the Genes That Make Us Human by Jeremy Taylor Publisher Comments It is one of the best-known pieces of scientific trivia--that human DNA and chimpanzee DNA differ by a mere 1.6%. But are we then just chimps with a few genetic tweaks? Are our language and our technology just an extension of the grunts and ant... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Nature Via Nurture Uk Edition by Matt Ridley Publisher Comments They are consequences as well as causes of the will. Published fifty years after the discovery of the double helix of DNA, Nature via Nurture chronicles a new revolution in our understanding of genes. Ridley recounts the hundred years' war between the... (read more) Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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For and Against #3: Cloning: For and Against by M L Rantala Publisher Comments This collection of 30 articles by scientists, ethicists, religious leaders, and legal experts explores the benefits and costs of cloning. Topics include: Playing God; Is Cloning the Salvation for Endangered Species? No Need for Marriage; Can You Xerox a... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.43 Used - Trade Paper
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Jacob's Ladder : History of the Human Genome (04 Edition) by Henry Gee Publisher Comments Evolutionary biologist Gee delivers a remarkably lucid explanation of what the sequencing of the human genome really tells us--and explains that the next frontier is understanding how they interact to direct the growth of an organism.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Code of Codes: Scientific and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project by Daniel J Kevles Publisher Comments The human genome is the key to what makes us human. Composed of the many different genes found in our cells, it defines our possibilities and limitations as members of the species. The ultimate goal of the pioneering project outlined in this book is to... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner From Powells.com Jonathan Weiner went to Harvard University with the intention of becoming a biologist, but found himself seduced by poetry. He went on to complete his degree in English and American literature. Yet, his love for biology never abated. His first foray... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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In Pursuit of the Gene: From Darwin to DNA by James Schwartz Publisher Comments In Pursuit of the GeneThis book is magnificent and captivating in its use of largely unpublished correspondence, largely unpublished, to reveal as a way to see scientists as human beings with feelings, intrigue and emotions riding high. Schwartz gets... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Human Genome: A User's Guide by R Scott Hawley Publisher Comments Dr. Hawley's Human Genetics course for non-majors at UC Davis. She has worked extensively as a management consultant in the private sector and is currently working on her Master's degree in Business Administration at the University of California at Davis.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bioinformatics a Practical Guide To the an 2ND Edition by Andreas D Baxevanis Publisher Comments Reviews OF the Second Edition "In this book, Andy Baxevanis and Francis Ouellette . . . have undertaken the difficult task of organizing the knowledge in this field in a logical progression and presenting it in a digestible form. And they have done an... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price: $46.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Language of Genes: Solving the Mysteries of Our Genetic Past, Present, and Future by Steve Jones Publisher Comments Displaying a remarkable ability to illustrate complex ideas simply, geneticist Jones takes the reader on a fascinating tour of the world of human genetics, explaining how the field began, the role genes play in shaping who and what we are, and the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper
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