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List Price: £16.95
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Author:
John Harris
By Princeton University Press
 Valuable, but a bit too dry, 2008-05-11
This book is based on a series of three lectures given by the author in Oxford in March 2006 at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilisation. I had the privilege to attend these lectures and I was spellbound by them at the time. So I was looking forward to reading this book.
However, somewhere in the process between the lectures and the book, the material has become, well, too dry. It sparkles on occasion, but the author allows himself to become bogged down too often in academic analysis, intellectual tennis, and other hair-splitting.
He's a great proponent of the merit, the morality, and even the necessity, of human enhancement. So far, so good. Some of his arguments strike home well. But in my view he gives too much time to listing various nooks and crannies of the views of various opponents of his writing. That's where the book becomes tedious. The author needs to become pithier.
The views of opponents of human enhancement (eg the people who say "Enough is enough" and that "Enhancement would destroy our core essential humanity, and must be opposed, despite all its manifest good results") do deserve attention. But I believe that a better book is waiting to be written, that will make a better job of highlighting the perversity and self-delusional destructive nature of these views.
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Author:
Daniel L. Hartl, Andrew G. Clark
By Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S.
 Up-to-date textbook for current progress of population genetics, 2007-04-03
Pre-ordered this book and once received and started reading, I can't stop!
This is a textbook packed with fundamentals of population genetics as well as the recent advances.
I would recommend anyone who don't know where to start in the diversed field of population genetics.
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Author:
Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter
By Garland Science
the reference standard, 2007-12-02
Classic textbook that will be of interest not just to undergraduates and researchers, but also to anyone curious about molecular biology or how a cell works. It simultaneously provides detailed information as well as a comprehensive overview of the field. The latter point is not easily accomplished because there is a huge number of new papers published in molecular and cellular biology each year. These guys manage to keep the bird's eye view in mind while covering such topics as cellular evolution, molecular genetics, internal organization of the cell, cell-cell interactions, the immune system, and cancer. Every student in the biological sciences should read this book from cover to cover. Author of Adjust Your Brain: A Practical Theory for Maximizing Mental Health.
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Author:
Matt Ridley
By Harper Perennial
Nature Via Nurture follows on from Matt Ridley's bestselling Genome. He takes on a centuries-old question: is it nature or nurture that makes us who we are? Ridley asserts that the question itself is a "false dichotomy". Using copious examples of human and animal behaviour, he presents the notion that our environment affects the way our genes express themselves. Ridley writes that the switches controlling our 30,000 or so genes not only form the structures of our brains but do so in such a way as to cue off the outside environment in a tidy feedback loop of body and behaviour. In fact, it seems clear that we have genetic "thermostats" that are turned up and down by environmental factors. He challenges both scientific and folk concepts, from assumptions of what's malleable in a person to sociobiological theories based solely on the "selfish gene". Ridley's proof is in the pudding for such touchy subjects as monogamy, aggression, and parenting, which we now understand have some genetic controls. Nevertheless, "the more we understand both our genes and our instincts, the less inevitable they seem". A consummate populariser of science, Ridley once again provides ...
fantastic, 2006-05-02
This book is amazing. A fantastic read about the concept and argument surrounding nature and nurture, genetics vs environment. On a par with his other book.
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Author:
Larry Gonick, Mark Wheelis
By HarperCollins
An excellent book, 1999-07-27
This book is wonderful.I am an Egyptian geneticist and this book has added much to my way of teaching to my students.Now ,I can easily symbolize the behaviour of DNA during replication and transcription.The presentation of the authors of the the transcription process is so fascinating.An arabic edition has been issued and in low price affordable by students here in Egypt and so i recommeded it to my students as simple review book . Please send a thank you to the authors.GO ON. \AHMED SHOUKRY AMIN, ASSISTANT LECTURER OF GENETICS., ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT, FACULTY OF SCIENCE, CAIRO UNIVERISTY ,EGYPT. kemetcho@yahoo.com
List Price: £14.50
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Author:
John Adds, Erica Larkcom, Ruth Miller
By Nelson Thornes
Well written and clear, 2005-12-15
I have just started a BSc in Biomedicine and was having difficulty getting to grips with biochemistry. Many books on biochemistry are written very poorly and/or assume that you have a good basic knowledge. This book was a pleasure to read. I am actually learning the subject. The English is very clear and the sentences are well written. The diagrams are also helpful without providing overwhelming information. The book claims to be for A-level students, but as a mature student I don't know what A-levels are like today. For me, doing a degree, it has proved ideal.
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Author:
Larry Snyder, Wendy Champness
By American Society for Microbiology
useful for many aspects of genetics, 2006-08-09
I studied Biochemistry and found this book very useful for numerous genetic modules. Although the book focuses on bacterial genetics, many general concepts are explained clearly, such as gene expression and mutations. There are plenty of diagrams and helpful summaries at the end of each chapter. I expect that this book could be used throughout a degree course because the introductary chapters are easy to understand, yet the suggested reading list extends into a final year level and explanations are very detailed.
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