The Language of the Genes
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Steve Jones. The Language of the Genes
STEVE JONES. The Language of the Genes
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CONTENTS
Preface A MALACOLOGIST’S APOLOGY
Introduction THE FINGERPRINTS OF HISTORY
Chapter One A MESSAGE FROM OUR ANCESTORS
Chapter Two THE RULES OF THE GAME
Chapter Three HERODOTUS REVISED
Chapter Four CHANGE OR DECAY
Chapter Five CALIBAN’S REVENGE
Chapter Six BEHIND THE SCREEN
Chapter Seven THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES
Chapter Eight CLOCKS, FOSSILS AND APES
Chapter Nine TIME AND CHANCE
Chapter Ten THE ECONOMICS OF EDEN
Chapter Eleven THE KINGDOMS OF CAIN
Chapter Twelve DARWIN’S STRATEGIST
Chapter Thirteen THE DEADLY FEVERS
Chapter Fourteen COUSINS UNDER THE SKIN
Chapter Fifteen EVOLUTION APPLIED
Chapter Sixteen THE MODERN PROMETHEUS
Chapter Seventeen THE EVOLUTION OF UTOPIA
Appendix A BIBLIOGRAPHIC SKETCH
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
PRAISE
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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Biology, History and the Evolutionary Future
Revised Edition
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Galton and his followers felt free to invent a science which accorded with their own prejudices. They believed that the duty to genes outweighs that to those who bear them. They were filled with extraordinary self-assurance and great weight was placed on their views although in retrospect it is obvious that they knew almost nothing.
Today’s new knowledge is as controversial as was the old ignorance. Even so, disputes among modern biologists are not about the vague general issues that obsessed their predecessors. Instead they concern themselves with the fate of individuals rather than of all humanity. Genetics has become a science and, as such, has narrowed its horizons.
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