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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Leroi, Armand Marie. Mutants. New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2005, c2003 (OCoLC)698053808 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Armand Marie Leroi |
| ISBN: | 0142004820 9780142004821 |
| OCLC Number: | 57743800 |
| Description: | xv, 431 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | I. Mutants (An introduction) -- II. A Perfect Join (On embryos) -- III. The Last Judgement (On first parts) -- IV. Cleppies (On arms and legs) -- V. Flesh of my Flesh, Bone of my Bone (On skeletons) -- VI. The War with the Cranes (On growth) -- VII. The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole (On gender) -- VIII. A Fragile Bubble (On skin) -- IX. The Sober Life (On ageing) -- X. Anthropometamorphosis (An epilogue). |
| Responsibility: | Armand Marie Leroi. |
Abstract:
"In Mutants, Armand Marie Leroi gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic grammar and the people whose bodies have revealed it, balancing both the science and the stories behind some of history's most captivating figures - including a French convent girl who found herself changing sex upon puberty; children who, echoing Homer's Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarfs; a hairy family that was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations (and from which Darwin took one of his keenest insights into heredity); and the ostrich-footed Wadoma of the Zambezi River Valley."--BOOK JACKET.
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