Bibliograph

Mutants, on genetic variety and the human body, Armand Marie Leroi

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Mutants, on genetic variety and the human body, Armand Marie Leroi

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-419) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mutants

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

52853891

Responsibility statement

Armand Marie Leroi

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."--Jacket

Sub title

on genetic variety and the human body

Table Of Contents

Mutants (an introduction) -- A perfect join (on embryos) -- The last judgement (on first parts) -- Cleppies (on arms and legs) -- Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone (on skeletons) -- The war with the cranes (on growth) -- The desire and pursuit of the whole (on gender) -- A fragile bubble (on skin) -- The sober life (on ageing) -- Anthropometamorphosis (an epilogue)

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