It Ain't Necessarily So The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions

Name: It Ain't Necessarily So The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions
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ISBN: 9780940322950

ISBN-10: 0940322951

ISBN-13: 9780940322950

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: Richard Lewontin

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Is our nature—as individuals, as a species—determined by our evolution and encoded in our genes? If we unravel the protein sequences of our DNA, will we gain the power to cure all of our physiological and psychological afflictions and even to solve the problems of our society? Today biologists—especially geneticists—are proposing answers to questions that have long been asked by philosophy or faith or the social sciences. Their work carries the weight of scientific authority and attracts widespread public attention, but it is often based on what the renowned evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin identifies as a highly reductive misconception: "the pervasive error that confuses the genetic…

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List price: $14.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 9/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction





The Inferiority Complex


An Exchange


Epilogue





Darwin's Revolution


Epilogue





Darwin, Mendel, and the Mind


Epilogue





The Science of Metamorphoses


Epilogue





The Dream of the Human Genome


Epilogue


Second Epilogue





Women Versus the Biologists


An Exchange





Sex, Lies, and Social Science


An Exchange





The Confusion over Cloning


An Exchange


Epilogue





Survival of the Nicest?





Genes in the Food!