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| | Amazon.com: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters: Books: Matt Ridley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20) |
 | | Genome shies away from the "tedious biochemical middle managers" that only a nerd could love and instead goes for the A-material: genes associated with cancer, intelligence, sex (of course), and more. |
 | | He believes that the Human Genome Project will be as world-changing as the splitting of the atom; if so, he is helping us prepare for exciting times--the hope of a cure for cancer contrasts starkly with the horrors of newly empowered eugenicists. |
 | | Matt Ridley unfolds the human genome for us in a crisply written and precise "Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters." OK, I don't know what the Hades that means, but this guy is a good writer, a smart scientist, and a friendly teacher of what is a really cool, but intimidating, branch of learning. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060194979?v=glance (2545 words) |
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