Amazing Schemes Within Your Genes

Looks at the unique quality of genes and chromosomal material. The book looks at why everyone looks different to everyone else, why boys are different from girls and why children look like their parents. The author and illustrator of this book won the 1991 Science Book Prize for "Cells are Us" and "Cell Wars".

Science & Math

Balkwill, Frances R.

Evolution

Harper Uk

Discusses the structure and function of genes, their adaptations and mutations, and basic genetic processes, particularly as they occur in humans.

Frances R. Balkwill

Collins

Armed with extraordinary new discoveries about our genes, acclaimed science writer Matt Ridley turns his attention to the nature-versus-nurture debate in a thoughtful book about the roots of human behavior.\nRidley recounts the hundred years' war between the partisans of nature and nurture to explain how this paradoxical creature, the human being, can be simultaneously free-willed and motivated by instinct and culture. With the decoding of the human genome, we now know that genes not only predetermine the broad structure of the brain, they also absorb formative experiences, react to social cues, and even run memory. They are consequences as well as causes of the will.

Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience & What Makes Us Human (Author Signed)

RIDLEY, Matt

Harpercollins

In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from the emergence of tiny one-celled organisms in the primeval slime more than 3,000 million years ago to apelike but upright man, equally well adapted to life in the rain forest of New Guinea and the glass canyons of a modern metropolis. Told through an examination of animal and plant life today - with occasional juxtapositions of extinct fossil forms to reveal the origin of living creatures - "Life on Earth" is an astonishing pageant of life, with a cast of characters drawn from the whole range of living animals the world over. Attenborough's perceptive, dynamic approach to the evolution of some four million species of living organisms that populate the planet is to trace the most significant thread in the history of each major group. He then proceeds to explain from the evidence of living representatives and fossil remains why certain animals adapted and survived, evolved to more complex and "higher" forms of life, while others, by some inherent limitation imposed by their physiology or structure, failed and became extinct. "Life on Earth" is a book of wonders. A model of clarity and ease as a guide, Attenborough takes the reader around the world with him into jungles where orchids have petals that "impersonate" wasps to attract pollenizing insects; to Australia, where honeypot ants forcefeed nectar to workers of a special caste, then hang them up by their forelegs like living storge jars; to remote mountains in Japan where little monkeys called macaques have learned to combat the winter snows by bathing in hot volcanic springs.

Life on Earth A natural history

ATTENBOROUGH, DAVID

Explains everything you are likely to see while on safari in East Africa. Complementary to the field guides, this book goes beyond identification to reveal how the mammals, birds, fish and reptiles of the area have evolved and why they behave as they do. Across the Savannah Plains of the Serengeti, through the forests of Kilimanjaro, into flamingo covered Lake Nakuru and further along the safari trail, it shows how different species successfully co-exist within each habitat and it looks at how animals have adapted their behaviour in order to survive.

On Safari in East Africa

Neal, Ernest

HarperCollins, Publishers

Steve Jones's highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic breakthroughs from GM food to Dolly the sheep.'An essential sightseer's guide to our own genetic terrain.' Peter Tallack, Sunday Telegraph 'Superb and stimulating...an exhilarating trip around the double spiral of DNA, a rush of gravity-defying concepts and wild swerves of the scientific imagination.' J.G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph 'Not so much divination as demystification... An attempt to bring genetics and evolution more into the public domain. If, for instance, you ever wondered just what genetic engineering is about, here is as good a place as any to discover. clarity, precision and ease.' Laurence Hurst, Times Higher; 'Sensitive to the social issues raised by genetics... yet Jones's interest reaches beyond contemporary social issues to the human past, to what genetics can and cannot tell us about our evolution and patterns of social development. He interleaves a broad knowledge of biology with considerations of cultural, demographic and -- as his title indicates -- linguistic history. At once instructive and captivating.' Daniel J.Kevles, London Review of Books"

Language of the Genes

Politics & Social Sciences

JONES, Steve

Anthropology

This work brings together new research from paleontology, genetics and neurobiology to explain the runaway evolution of the human brain. It debunks the popular notion that people arose from a single Eve. It also considers "politically correct" revisionist theories of human prehistory. Christopher Wills delves deeply into the arguments that man's recent evolution has been driven by a "feedback loop" between the genes that control brain development and the culture that humans have invented. The book examines both the scientific and political ramifications of the two current competing models for recent human evolution - the "multiple origins" and the "Noah's Ark" models - and shows how genetic data close the gap between them. Christopher Wills is the author of "The Wisdom of the Genes" and "Exxons, Introns and Talking Genes".

Runaway Brain the Evolution of Human Uniqueness

Wills, Christopher

Harpercollins Publisher

This work is about human origins. It draws on all the latest knowledge from anthropology and archaeology, via genetics and evolution, to psychology and medicine. It tackles issues such as hereditary genes in criminal behaviour and homosexuality.

In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny

Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth is a non-fiction book written by British paleontologist Richard A. Fortey. It was originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers, under the title Life: An Unauthorised Biography. Fortey used this book to explain how life has evolved over the last four billion years. It discusses evolution, biology, the origin of life, and paleontology. Under its various titles it has become a best-seller; according to WorldCat, it is in over a thousand public libraries in the United States alone.

Life: a natural history of the first four billion years of life on earth

RICHARD FORTEY

Biological Sciences

KNOPF

Bringing together the latest insights from genetics and cyberculture, this book contends that all life can be conceived of as information. It explores future developments in genetics, both as a consequence of Darwinian natural selection and under the influence of genetic engineering. The ideas are illustrated by writing that draws on a range of surreal examples including hypermarkets containing every toy in the universe, pufferfish that think like flies, Peter Pan-like trips through human genes and creatures that evolve in months and not millennia. It argues that the future will be dominated by biological machines evolved artificially by a process of accelerated evolution which is called "evolution compression".

Life Without Genes

ADRIAN WOOLFSON

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Amazing Schemes Within Your Genes

Amazing Schemes Within Your Genes

Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience & What Makes Us Human (Author Signed)

Life on Earth A natural history

On Safari in East Africa

Language of the Genes

Runaway Brain the Evolution of Human Uniqueness

In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny

Life: a natural history of the first four billion years of life on earth

Life Without Genes