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The genetic gods : evolution and belief in human affairs /

They mastermind our lives, shaping our features, our health, and our behavior, even in the sacrosanct realms of love and sex, religion, aging, and death. Yet we are the ones who house, perpetuate, and give the promise of immortality to these biological agents, our genetic gods. The link between gene...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Avise, John C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • One. The Doctrines of Biological Science
  • Two. Geneses
  • Three. Genetic Maladies
  • Four. Genetic Beneficence
  • Five. Strategies of the Genes
  • Six. Genetic Sovereignty
  • Seven. New Lords of Our Genes?
  • Eight. Meaning
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Index