It will help you understand what this scientific milestone means for you, for your children, and for humankind. From Huntington's disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Matt Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome. Each chapter takes a gene on the chromosone and then links in into a general discussion on a whirlwind of topics in genetic research. Since there are 23 chromosones there are 23 chapters and 23 themes. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters von Ridley, Matt beim - ISBN 10: 185702835X - ISBN 13: 9781857028355 - Fourth Estate - 2000. By picking one newly discovered gene from each pair of chromosomes and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. Ridley uses the mapped Genome as the motif for him to launch into a number of ideas associated with the Genome on every one of the chromosones. Genome offers extraordinary insight into the ramifications of this incredible breakthrough. Questions that will affect the rest of your life. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Early in the next century we will have determined the function of every one of these 100,000 genes.The genome's been mapped. Everything that makes us human can be read in our genes. While many believe that genetics proves biological determinism, Ridley will show that in fact free will is itself in the genes. Matt Ridley presents his latest book: Nature Via Nurture. Ridley for many years the Director of the Botanic Gardens in Singapore in. Genome also argues for the genetic foundations of free will. He is also a visiting professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. Meyer Medal for Distinguished Services in Plant Introduction is presented to Dr. Farley ( Dordrecht, Netherlands : Kluwer Academic, 1995 ), pp.

The first chromosome, for example, contains our oldest genes, genes which we have in common with plants.īy looking at our genes we can see the story of our evolution, what makes us individual, how our sexuality is determined, how we acquire language, why we are vunerable to certain diseases, how mind has arisen. Genome, a book of about 100,000 words, is divided into 23 chapters, a chapter for each chromosome. These 100,000 genes are sited across 23 pairs of chromosomes. The genome is the collective recipe for the building and running of the human body. The most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene, from the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue.

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