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Mutants : on genetic variety and the human body / Armand Marie Leroi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Viking, 2003Description: xv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0670031100
  • 9780670031108
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.043 22
LOC classification:
  • QM691 .L47 2003
Contents:
I. Mutants (An introduction) -- II. A Perfect Join (On embryos) -- III. The Last Judgement (On first parts) -- IV. Cleppies (On arms and legs) -- V. Flesh of my Flesh, Bone of my Bone (On skeletons) -- VI. The War with the Cranes (On growth) -- VII. The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole (On gender) -- VIII. A Fragile Bubble (On skin) -- IX. The Sober Life (On ageing) -- X. Anthropometamorphosis (An epilogue).
Review: "In Mutants, Armand Marie Leroi gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic grammar and the people whose bodies have revealed it, balancing both the science and the stories behind some of history's most captivating figures - including a French convent girl who found herself changing sex upon puberty; children who, echoing Homer's Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarfs; a hairy family that was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations (and from which Darwin took one of his keenest insights into heredity); and the ostrich-footed Wadoma of the Zambezi River Valley."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-419) and index.

I. Mutants (An introduction) -- II. A Perfect Join (On embryos) -- III. The Last Judgement (On first parts) -- IV. Cleppies (On arms and legs) -- V. Flesh of my Flesh, Bone of my Bone (On skeletons) -- VI. The War with the Cranes (On growth) -- VII. The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole (On gender) -- VIII. A Fragile Bubble (On skin) -- IX. The Sober Life (On ageing) -- X. Anthropometamorphosis (An epilogue).

"In Mutants, Armand Marie Leroi gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic grammar and the people whose bodies have revealed it, balancing both the science and the stories behind some of history's most captivating figures - including a French convent girl who found herself changing sex upon puberty; children who, echoing Homer's Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarfs; a hairy family that was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations (and from which Darwin took one of his keenest insights into heredity); and the ostrich-footed Wadoma of the Zambezi River Valley."--BOOK JACKET.

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