Mutants : On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body
by Leroi, Armand Marie
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002571137
- ISBN 13
- 9780002571135
- Seller
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SHREWSBURY, Shropshire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http://armandleroi.com/index.html Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it—a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing Homer’s Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity. This elegant, humane, and engaging book “captures what we know of the development of what makes us human” ( Nature ).
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- Bookseller
- Nigel Sustins Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009360
- Title
- Mutants : On the Form, Varieties and Errors of the Human Body
- Author
- Leroi, Armand Marie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002571137
- ISBN 13
- 9780002571135
- Publisher
- HarperCollins [Harper Collins]
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
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- History;
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