Book ID: CBB000430270

Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body (2003)

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Leroi, Armand Marie (Author)


Viking


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: xv + 431 pp., illus.
Language: English

Description Contains historical narratives of human biological abnormalities.


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Review Martineau, Monique (2004) Review of "Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body". Science. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Green, L. Joanne
Ken Richardson
Stawkowski, Magdalena E.
Goldstein, Donna M.
Valles, Sean A.
Thurtle, Phillip
Journals
Journal of the History of Biology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Publishers
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Queen's University at Kingston (Canada)
University of Wisconsin Press
University of Washington Press
MIT Press
Harvard University Press
Concepts
Human genetics
Genes
Human body
Mutation
Genetics
Evolution
People
Lasker, Margaret
Dubrova, Yuri E.
Penrose, Lionel
Neel, James van Gundia
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich
Dawkins, Richard
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
Japan
Italy
Soviet Union
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