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Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body By .9780002571135
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- Condition
- Title
- Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body
- ISBN
- 9780002571135
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Mutants: on the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body
- Item Height
- 222 mm
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Subject
- Biology
- Item Weight
- 688 g
- Item Width
- 141 mm
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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How we grow; and what happens when mistakes occur Mutants is a book about how the body develops and grows from a single cell to an adult and then declines into old age. What does the new molecular genetics tell us about the human condition? How is a limb formed? Why do we have five fingers (and not six)? What controls the size to which we grow? Why do we age?More than this, however, it is a brilliant narrative history of what happens when things go wrong. This book tells, rather like a biological verison of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, the stories of particularly historically important and bizarre cases: of a French convent girl of the last century who found herself changing sex upon puberty and her miserable fate in the gutters of Paris; of children, invariably stillborn, who have cylopia (one eye located beneath their nasal cavity); of a tribe of pygmies in the Andaman Islands and a village of Ecuadorian dwarves: of a remarkably hairy family who were kept at the Burmese Royal Court for four generations (and from whom Darwin took one of his keenest insights into heredity); and so on. From each important lessons are drawn that illustrate over and over again the amazing nature of cellular growth and how it works.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780002571135
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88757448
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Mutants: on the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body
Publication Year
2004
Subject
Biology
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
222 mm
Item Weight
688 g
Item Width
141 mm
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United Kingdom
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