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Genetics & epigeneticsbooks

Below are the best books we could find on Genetics and epigenetics.

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She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

Celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it.

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Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals

Welcome to Monkeyluv, a curious and entertaining collection of essays about the human animal in all its fascinating variety, from Robert M. Sapolsky, America’s most beloved neurobiologist/primatologist.

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What Is Life? Five Great Ideas in Biology

The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every reader can understand.

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The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

The debate is as old as physical competition.

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Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity

So why does disease exist? Moalem proposes that most common ailments—diabetes, hemochromatosis, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia—came into existence for very good reasons. At some point they helped our ancestors survive some grand challenge to their existence.

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