Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction-is it worse than the disease? We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell out eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes with their chromosomes... [Book Jacket].
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ISBN:0060872985
ISBN:0060872984
ISBN:0060873167 (pbk.)
ISBN:9780060873165 (pbk.)
ISBN:9780060872984
Physical Description:431 p. ; 24 cm. : ill. print
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2006.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-431).
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