Full name: Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

Author: Armand Marie Leroi Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, History, Anthology, Health Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780142004821 0142004820

Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it--a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at 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 dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity. This elegant, humane, and engaging book "captures what we know of the development of what makes us human" (Nature). Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http: //armandleroi.com/index.htmlStepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Similar books: The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Violinist's Thumb by Sam Kean Genome by Matt Ridley 50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Mark Henderson The Genome War by James Shreeve Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford She Has Her Mother's Laugh by Carl Zimmer The Body by Bill Bryson Y: The Descent of Men by Steve Jones The Tangled Tree by David Quammen Monkeyluv by Robert M. Sapolsky Adam's Curse by Bryan Sykes The Language of the Genes by Steve Jones Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich The Lagoon by Armand Marie Leroi Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade Breaking the Maya Code by Michael Coe Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris