Deep Ancestry
Inside The Genographic Project
Written by Spencer Wells
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2007
Price: $12.95
Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all.
In
Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating story. Using...
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Deep Ancestry
The Landmark DNA Quest to Decipher Our Distant Past
Written by Spencer Wells
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 20, 2007
Price: $9.95
Travel backward through time from today's scattered billions to the handful of early humans who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago and are ancestors to us all.
In
Deep Ancestry, scientist and National Geographic explorer Spencer Wells shows how tiny genetic changes add up over time into a fascinating story. Using...
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Deep Ancestry
Inside the Genographic Project
Written by Spencer Wells
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 21, 2006
Price: $24.00
Science tells us we're all related—one vast family sharing a common ancestor who lived in Africa 60,000 years ago. But countless questions remain about our great journey from the birthplace of
Homo sapiens to the ends of the Earth. How did we end up where we are? When did we get...
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The Genius Factory
The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
Written by David Plotz
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history, and no one knew how it turned out. The Repository for Germinal Choice–nicknamed the Nobel Prize sperm bank–opened to notorious fanfare in 1980, and for two decades, women flocked to it from all over the country to choose a sperm donor...
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The God Gene
How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes
Written by Dean H. Hamer
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $16.00
LEADING GENETICIST DEAN HAMER CRACKS THE “CODE” BEHIND WHY WE ARE PREDISPOSED TO BELIEVE IN GOD. IN A BOOK THAT BRIDGES THE GAP BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE, HAMER BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATES HOW OUR INCLINATION TOWARD FAITH IS INFLUENCED BY OUR GENES.
The overwhelming majority of Americans believe in God, expressing a conviction that...
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The God Gene
How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes
Written by Dean H. Hamer
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $16.00
The overwhelming majority of Americans believe in God; this conviction has existed since the beginning of recorded time and is shared by billions around the world. In
The God Gene, Dr. Dean Hamer reveals that this inclination towards religious faith is in good measure due to our genes and may even...
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The Genius Factory
The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
Written by David Plotz
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 7, 2005
Price: $14.95
It was the most radical human-breeding experiment in American history, and no one knew how it turned out. The Repository for Germinal Choice–nicknamed the Nobel Prize sperm bank–opened to notorious fanfare in 1980, and for two decades, women flocked to it from all over the country to choose a sperm donor...
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Genes, Girls, and Gamow
After the Double Helix
Written by James D. Watson
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 7, 2003
Price: $14.00
In the years following his and Francis Crick’s towering discovery of DNA, James Watson was obsessed with finding two things: RNA and a wife.
Genes, Girls, and Gamow is the marvelous chronicle of those pursuits. Watson effortlessly glides between his heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious debacles in the field of love and...
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