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| 类型/形式： | Popular works Popular Works |
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| 材料类型： | 互联网资源 |
| 文件类型： | 书, 互联网资源 |
| 所有的著者/提供者： |
Philip Reilly |
| ISBN: | 0879698012 9780879698010 |
| OCLC号码： | 62493340 |
| 描述： | xvi, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 内容： | Humanity -- The strongest boy in the world -- Our ancestors -- Race -- Longevity -- Intelligence -- Diseases -- Charcot-Marie-tooth disease -- Huntington's disease -- Deafness -- San Luis Valley syndrome -- Severe combined immune deficiency -- Animals and plants -- Dogs -- Cats -- Mice -- Corn -- Rice -- Society -- History -- DNA forensics -- Art and language -- Preimplantation genetic diagnosis -- Stem cells. |
| 责任： | Philip R. Reilly. |
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The Strongest Boy in the World is a wonderful tour of genetics, genomics and stem-cell biology. General readers may find the science a stretch, but the effort will be amply rewarded with a better understanding of some of the most important issues currently facing our society. It isn't that Reilly gives new perspectives, but rather that he presents a rich, fascinating history and a broad view of the science that seasoned geneticists think about every day. Instruction about basic principles of genetics is minimal, with a 'knock-out' mouse being defined in terms of a transgenic mouse, for readers who know what the latter is. Reilly delves into broad fields of biology, society and history, clarifying the idea of 'race', but rather muddying the term 'family'. For the geneticist, Reilly presents a balanced, positive view of ethical and social issues in genetics, and an entertaining background in history, geography and economics, and the way these fields interface with modern genetics and genomics. I've often tried to convince my colleagues across campus that genetics should be a part of every undergraduate's education. No book makes this case more clearly than The Strongest Boy in the World. Nature ...Reilly writes well and avoids being slick and superficial. He believes in an ethical reflection on where science takes us. This combined approach makes the book valuable for courses on science and society or ethics. Teachers will mine a rich vein of anecdotes to use in their lectures, and this volume will be ideal to stimulate class discussion. -- The Quarterly Review of Biology 再读一些...