Epigenetics Revolution How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance

Name: Epigenetics Revolution How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance
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ISBN: 9780231161176

ISBN-10: 0231161174

ISBN-13: 9780231161176

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Authors: Nessa Carey

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Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity. Surveying the twenty-year history of the field while also highlighting its latest findings and innovations, this volume provides a readily understandable introduction to the foundations of epigenetics.Nessa Carey, a leading epigenetics researcher, connects the field's arguments to such diverse phenomena as how ants and queen bees control their colonies; why tortoiseshell cats are always female; why…

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List price: $18.95
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



An Ugly Toad and an Elegant Man



How We Learned to Roll Uphill



Life As We Knew It



Life As We Know It Now



Why Aren't Identical Twins Actually Identical?



The Sins of the Fathers



The Generations Game



The Battle of the Sexes



Generation X



The Message is Not the Medium



Fighting the Enemy Within



All in the Mind



The Downhill Slope



Long Live the Queen



The Green Revolution



The Ways Ahead


Notes


Glossary


Index