Summary: Dr. Silver provides a foundation for understanding how life works at the level of genes and molecules that interact in complex networks to drive human development, evolution, and behavior.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Kirksey, Eben
Summary: "An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine, and technology to ask: Whose values are guiding gene editing experiments? And what does this new era of scientific inquiry mean for the future of the human species? "That rare kind of scholarship that is also a page-turner." -Britt Wray, author of Rise of the Necrofauna. At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr. He Jiankui...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.5 KIRRaff, Jennifer
Summary: "From celebrated genetic anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story--and fascinating mystery--of how humans migrated to the Americas"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.5 RAFRutherford, Adam
Summary: Adam Rutherford explores the profound paradox of the "human animal." Looking for answers across the animal kingdom, he finds that many things once considered exclusively human are not: In Australia, raptors have been observed starting fires to scatter prey; in Zambia, a chimp named Julie even started a "fashion" of wearing grass in one ear. We aren't the only species that communicates, makes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment, LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.93 RUTGee, Henry.
Summary: Discusses what can be understood through human genome sequencing, describes how the interactions of genes direct the growth of individuals, and reveals what gene research will enable in the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.935 GEERidley, Matt.
Summary: Looks at one newly described gene from each of the twenty-three human chromosomes and explains how each one contributes to our uniqueness as a species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612 RIDAvise, John C.
Summary: How do you explain flaw in a world engineered by God? Avise extends this age-old question to the most basic aspect of humanity's physical evidence-- our genes-- and provides the evolutionary answers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 611.0181 AVIWatson, James D.
Summary: "James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from the discovery of the double helix to today's controversies to what the future may hold. Updated to include new findings in gene editing, epigenetics, agricultural chemistry, as well as two entirely new chapters on personal genomics and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576 WATGibson, Greg.
Contents: The adolescent genome -- Breast cancer's broken genes -- Not so thrifty diabetes genes -- Unhealthy hygiene -- Genetic AIDS -- Generating depression -- The Alzheimer's generation -- Genetic normality.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pearson Education 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.042 GIBClaybourne, Anna
Summary: This book takes you deep inside a cell to see where genes are found and goes behind the headlines to explain cloning, gene therapy, the human genome, DNA testing, GM foods, genetic engineering and much more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: EDC Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 572 CLAStewart, Whitney
Summary: "Since the completion of the Human Genome Project, genetic studies has transitioned into an era of discovery. This book explores the breakthroughs in research that inform our understanding of ancestry, inheritance, epigenetics, health, and medicine." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 572.8 STEFlowers, Charles.
Summary: Publisher's description: A century of remarkable scientific discovery "We learned that the continents are forever slipping and sliding around the globe, like clothing on a teenager, and the mountains are forever rising, the oceans widening, the volcanoes stoking their furnaces for the next blast. "Our bodies are a fever of change as our minds perpetually rewire themselves and our genes make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 509.04 FLOCollins, Francis S.
Contents: From atheism to belief -- The war of the worldviews -- The origins of the universe -- Life on Earth : of microbes and man -- Deciphering God's instruction book : the lessons of the human genome -- Genesis, Galileo, and Darwin -- Option 1 : atheism and agnosticism (when science trumps faith) -- Option 2 : creationism (when faith trumps science) -- Option 3 : intelligent design (when science...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 215 COLParker, Steve
Summary: Explores the diverse systems of the human body and their functions, the major organs, and how the different parts of the body work together. Reveal the inner workings of the human body with this illustrated atlas. An exciting visual guide that maps the entire human body-- inside and out. Find out what happens to food after you swallow it, how each beat of your heart pumps blood around your...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Summary: In this lively, carefully argued, and well-documented book, Hyde brings the past to bear on present matters, shedding fresh light on everything from the Human Genome Project to Bob Dylan's musical root, revealing a vision of how to reclaim the commonwealth of art and ideas that we were meant to inherit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001 HYDIsaacson, Walter
Summary: A portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist explores the impact of James Watson's "The Double Helix" on her career and how her team's invention of CRISPR technology enabled revolutionary DNA-editing approaches to fighting disease, as well as curing diseases, fending off viruses, and enhancing our children
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 576.5 ISACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 DOUDNA, JENNIFER ISAContreras, Jorge L.
Summary: "The gripping true story of a Supreme Court civil rights battle to prevent biotech companies from owning the very thing that makes us who we are-our DNA"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2021