| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xv, 234 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-215) and index. |
| Contents |
What your genes are wearing -- A grandmother effect -- Directors, actors, stagehands -- What roids wrought -- The well-socialized gene -- Kentucky Fried Chicken in Bangkok -- Twigs, trees, and fruits -- What Wright wrought -- X-women -- Horses asses -- Sea urchins are not just to eat -- Pray for the devil -- The Janus gene. |
| Summary |
Discusses how scientific evidence is increasingly showing a link between the stress of the environment on an individual and the seemingly inherited traits of his or her subsequent generations. |
| Subject |
Genetic regulation.
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Epigenesis.
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Adaptation (Biology)
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Epigenesis, Genetic. |
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Adaptation, Biological. |
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Epigenomics. |
| ISBN |
9780393070057 (hardcover) |
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0393070050 (hardcover) |
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