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Chargement... Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genomepar Henry Gee
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Jacob's Ladder delivers a remarkably lucid explanation of what the sequencing of the human genome really tells us. Decoding the sequence, evolutionary biologist Henry Gee shows, is just the beginning: seeing the letters and words. The next frontier is in understanding snatches of conversation between genes--how they interact to direct the growth of an organism. Gee takes us into the heart of that conversation, illuminating how genes govern a single egg cell's miraculous transformation into a human being, and how they continue to direct that person's day-by-day development throughout a lifetime.Gee tells the story of what we know about the genome today and what we are likely to discover tomorrow. As our knowledge advances, we will be able to direct with increasing authority the conversations between genes: not only performing medical interventions but also creating whole scripts directing birth, ancestry, and diversity in a brave new world. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I thought I was getting a description of the state of the art of genome science in 2004.
What I actually got was a history of how we reached this state of the art in 2004; but a much better written and much more engaging history than those I've read previously. In particular the author is very sympathetic as to why biologists in times past held the theories they did, explaining just what it was that these scientists thought it was they were explaining, and the constraints of the explanatory model into which they were trying to fit.
Thoroughly recommended. ( )