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The Epigenetics Revolution - How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance (Paperback)
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The Epigenetics Revolution - How Modern Biology is Rewriting our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance (Paperback)
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'A book that would have had Darwin swooning - anyone seriously
interested in who we are and how we function should read this.'
Guardian At the beginning of this century enormous progress had
been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing
human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all
the answers to the secrets of life on this planet. The cutting-edge
of biology, however, is telling us that we still don't even know
all of the questions. How is it that, despite each cell in your
body carrying exactly the same DNA, you don't have teeth growing
out of your eyeballs or toenails on your liver? How is it that
identical twins share exactly the same DNA and yet can exhibit
dramatic differences in the way that they live and grow? It turns
out that cells read the genetic code in DNA more like a script to
be interpreted than a mould that replicates the same result each
time. This is epigenetics and it's the fastest-moving field in
biology today. The Epigenetics Revolution traces the thrilling path
this discipline has taken over the last twenty years. Biologist
Nessa Carey deftly explains such diverse phenomena as how queen
bees and ants control their colonies, why tortoiseshell cats are
always female, why some plants need a period of cold before they
can flower, why we age, develop disease and become addicted to
drugs, and much more. Most excitingly, Carey reveals the amazing
possibilities for humankind that epigenetics offers for us all -
and in the surprisingly near future.
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