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1) The invisible history of the human race: how DNA and history shape our identities and our futures
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
"How biology, psychology, and history shape us as individuals We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible History of the Human Race Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where we may be going. While some books explore our genetic inheritance and popular television...
2) Genetics
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
48 pages ; cm.
Description
"Learn all about the history of genetics research, from how scientists began studying genes to how their discoveries affect our lives today."--
Publisher
Public Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Scientific genetics holds at once the promise of eradicating disease and the threat of altering the very essence of what it means to be human. The Gene: An Intimate History traces the dizzying evolution of this new science as researchers race to identify treatments for genetic diseases, such as cancer and sickle cell anemia, and to perfect tools for rewriting DNA. Based on the book by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
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Description
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author draws on his scientific knowledge and research to describe the magisterial history of a scientific idea, the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans; that governs our form, function, and fate; and that determines the future of our children. The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where Gregor Mendel, a monk working with pea...
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