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Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body By .9780007184576
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- Condition
- Title
- Mutants: On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body
- ISBN
- 9780007184576
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Mutants: on the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body
- Item Height
- 216 mm
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Width
- 135 mm
- Subject
- Medicine, Science
- Item Weight
- 548 g
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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How we grow; and what happens when mistakes occurMutants is a book about how the body develops and grows from a single cell to an adult and then declines into old age. What does the new molecular genetics tell us about the human condition? How is a limb formed? Why do we have five fingers (and not six)? What controls the size to which we grow? Why do we age?More than this, however, it is a brilliant narrative history of what happens when things go wrong. This book tells, rather like a biological verison of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, the stories of particularly historically important and bizarre cases: of a French convent girl of the last century who found herself changing sex upon puberty and her miserable fate in the gutters of Paris; of children, invariably stillborn, who have cylopia (one eye located beneath their nasal cavity); of a tribe of pygmies in the Andaman Islands and a village of Ecuadorian dwarves: of a remarkably hairy family who were kept at the Burmese Royal Court for four generations (and from whom Darwin took one of his keenest insights into heredity); and so on. From each important lessons are drawn that illustrate over and over again the amazing nature of cellular growth and how it works.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780007184576
eBay Product ID (ePID)
90632016
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Mutants: on the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Science
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216 mm
Item Width
135 mm
Item Weight
548 g
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United Kingdom
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