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Title:
Heredity : a very short introduction / John Waller.
Author:
Waller, John, 1972- author.
Publication Information:
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Call Number:
QH430 .W346 2017
Abstract:
The idea of heredity--that qualities of body and mind are somehow inherited from one's parents--has profoundly shaped many aspects of the human experience: from our attempts to understand variation in personality and intelligence, and popular attitudes to gender, race, and social hierarchy, to the methods employed to increase crop yields and the value of horses and cattle. In this Very Short Introduction, John Waller traces both the technical study of biological inheritance and its ideological uses. He follows the concept of heredity from antiquity into a modern age of molecular biology in which a brave new prospect is emerging: the capacity to manipulate the human genome itself--dust jacket.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780198790457
Series:
Very short introductions ; 532

Very short introductions ; 532.
Physical Description:
xx, 151 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 18 cm
Contents:
Souls, seeds, and chauvinism, 2500 BC-AD 400 -- Sex, seed, and sin in the medieval world -- Heredity in the early modern world, 1450-1700 -- Heredity in the Enlightenment -- Heredity in the 19th century -- Molecules and men -- New horizons -- Progress and possibility.
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