You : a natural history /

You are many things, including a person, a member of a species, a collection of cells, a collection of atoms, and a gene-replication machine. In You: A Natural History, William B. Irvine explores your many identities and describes the remarkable series of events that led you to possess them.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Irvine, William Braxton, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Temas:
Human biology.
Human beings > Constitution.
Human Genetics
Biologie humaine.
Homme > Constitution.
MEDICAL > Physiology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Your multiple identities
  • Part I : Your deep ancestry. Your people
  • You and I are related
  • You have a great throwing arm
  • Your place on the tree of life
  • Your sex problem(s)
  • The neanderthal in your family tree
  • The code(s) by which you live
  • Your (alien?) roots
  • Part II : The cellular you. Your are complex
  • Your ancestors were boring
  • Your "cellmates"
  • Your "boarders"
  • Part III : The atomic you. Your are what you eat, ate
  • Your windblown past
  • Your cosmic connection
  • Pulling yourself together
  • Part IV : Your place in the universe. You are a gene machine
  • You are (merely) part of life
  • Your many afterlives
  • Why are you here?

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