It Takes a Genome: How a Clash Between Our Genes and Modern Life Is Making Us Sick

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Edition: 1
Release: 2009-01-03
Publisher: FT Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 013713746X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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“A compelling, witty, and reader-friendly explanation of how our genes, fashioned for living in the Stone Age, are not so well-suited to life in the Modern Age.” —Sean B. Carroll, author of The Making of the Fittest and Remarkable Creatures   “It’s taken thirty years, but we finally have in Greg Gibson’s It Takes a Genome what is truly a biologist’s response to the single-gene focus of Richard Dawkin’s early classic The Selfish Gene. And what a response it is! In Gibson’s world, we see a genome as an integrated whole, making sense only when the constituent parts, the genes, are considered in their full genomic and environmental context. It is an engaging, fascinating, accessible, and ultimately deeply satisfying perspective that will enrich the way we all think about ourselves and how we got to be the way we are.” —David B. Goldstein, Professor of Molecular Genetics, Duke University   “Gibson has captured the delicate balance between the excitement of t Download It Takes a Genome for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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