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The Compatibility Gene (Paperback)
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The Compatibility Gene (Paperback)
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Short-listed for the Society of Biology Book Award 2014 Long-listed
for the Royal Society Winton prize for science books 2014 In The
Compatibility Gene, leading scientist Daniel M Davis tells the
story of the crucial genes that define our relationships, our
health and our individuality. We each possess a similar set of
around 25,000 human genes. Yet a tiny, distinctive cluster of these
genes plays a disproportionately large part in how our bodies work.
These few genes, argues Davis, hold the key to who we are as
individuals and our relationship to the world: how we combat
disease, how our brains are wired, how attractive we are, even how
likely we are to reproduce. The Compatibility Gene follows the
remarkable history of these genes' discovery. From the British
scientific pioneers who struggled to understand the mysteries of
transplants to the Swiss zoologist who devised a new method of
assessing potential couples' compatibility based on the smell of
worn T-shirts, Davis traces a true scientific revolution in our
understanding of the human body: a global adventure spanning some
sixty years. 'Unusual results, astonishing implications and ethical
dilemmas' The Times 'Packed with an insider's knowledge' New York
Times 'He makes immunology as fascinating to popular science
readers as cosmology, consciousness, and evolution' Steven Pinker
'An elegantly written, unexpectedly gripping account' Bill Bryson
Guardian, Books of the Year Daniel M Davis is director of research
at the University of Manchester's Collaborative Centre for
Inflammation Research and a visiting professor at Imperial College,
London. He has published over 100 academic articles, including
papers in Nature and Science, and Scientific American. He has won
the Oxford University Press Science Writing Prize and given
numerous interviews for national and international media. He was
elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2011.
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