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Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for ...
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What Mad Pursuit
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Candid, provocative, and disarming, this is the widely-praised memoir of the co-discoverer of the double helix of DNA. Product DetailsISBN-13: 97...
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Dance to the Tune of Life: Biological Relativity
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /In this thought-provoking book, Denis Noble formulates the theory of biological relativity, emphasising that living organisms operate at multiple...
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Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for ...
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Understanding Forensic DNA
HardcoverOriginal price $49.99Original price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Forensic DNA analysis plays a central role in the judicial system. A DNA sample can change the course of an investigation with immense consequenc...
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The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intel...
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The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"His groundbreaking work has changed the very ways we consider our health and examine disease.” —Barack Obama From Dr. Francis Collins, director...
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Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Have you ever heard of a person who left you wondering, "How could someone be so twisted? So evil?" Prompted by clues in her sister's diary after...
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The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Bracingly intelligent, lucid, balanced—witty, too. . . . A scrupulous and charming look at our modern understanding of genes and experience.” — ...
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The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Named one of The New Yorker's BEST BOOKS OF 2022 SO FARThe next frontier in technology is inside our own bodies. Synthetic biology will revolutio...
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Bioinformatics For Dummies
PaperbackOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Were you always curious about biology but were afraid to sit through long hours of dense reading? Did you like the subject when you were in high ...
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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /In a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations of our ancestors...
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A preeminent geneticist, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in medicine, hunts the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes to answer the biggest question o...
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The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Lucifer Principle is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth ...
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Decoding Darkness: The Search For The Genetic Causes Of Alzheimer's Disease
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Working from the intriguing hypothesis that Alzheimer's dementia is the result of a renegade protein-beta amyloid-Tanzi and others set out to fin...
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The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000...
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Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Goodbye, genetic blueprint. . . . The first book for general readers on the game-changing field of epigenetics. The burgeoning new science of epi...
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Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly “post-racial” ...
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A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human...
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Richard Dawkins’s classic remains the definitive argument for our modern understanding of evolution. The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for...
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Evolution: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Less than 450 years ago, all European scholars believed that the Earth was at the center of a Universe that was at most a few million miles in ex...
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00Original price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist"Science book of the year"—The GuardianOne of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 20...
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Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A top behavioral geneticist argues DNA inherited from our parents at conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses.This “mode...
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The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, “our greatest living chronicler of the natural world” (The Ne...
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