Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance - Hardcover

Francis, Richard

 
9780393070057: Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393070050 ISBN 13: 9780393070057
Verlag: Norton, 2011

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"The potential is staggering. . . . The age of epigenetics has arrived." Time, January 2010Epigenetic means "on the gene," and the term refers to the recent discovery that stress in the environment can impact an individual's physiology so deeply that those biological scars are actually inherited by the next several generations. For instance, a recent study has shown that men who started smoking before puberty caused their sons to have significantly higher rates of obesity. And obesity is just the tip of the iceberg many researchers believe that epigenetics holds the key to understanding cancer, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, autism, and diabetes.Epigenetics is the first book for general readers on this fascinating and important topic. The book is driven by stories such as the Dutch famine of World War II, José Canseco and steroids, the breeding of mules and hinnies, Tazmanian devils and contagious cancer, and more.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard C. Francis is a freelance writer with a PhD in neurobiology and behavior from Stony Brook University. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, and has published articles in academic journals in the neurosciences, evolution, and the philosophy of science.

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Verlag
Norton
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393070050
ISBN 13 
9780393070057
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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