Download or read book A History of Genetics written by Alfred Henry Sturtevant and published by CSHL Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the small “Fly Room†at Columbia University, T.H. Morgan and his students, A.H. Sturtevant, C.B. Bridges, and H.J. Muller, carried out the work that laid the foundations of modern, chromosomal genetics. The excitement of those times, when the whole field of genetics was being created, is captured in this book, written in 1965 by one of those present at the beginning. His account is one of the few authoritative, analytic works on the early history of genetics. This attractive reprint is accompanied by a website, http://www.esp.org/books/sturt/history/ offering full-text versions of the key papers discussed in the book, including the world's first genetic map.

Download or read book The Gene written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s new book Song of the Cell! From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle). “Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself.” —Ken Burns “Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” (The New York Times). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. “Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome. “A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “The Gene is a book we all should read” (USA TODAY).

Download or read book La escalera de Jacob written by Henry Gee and published by Grupo Planeta (GBS). This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La escalera de Jacob nos ofrece una explicación lúcida y sencilla de lo que realmente nos revela la secuenciación del genoma humano. El biólogo evolutivo Henry Gee muestra que conocer la secuenciación es sólo el comienzo de una gran aventura, como ver las letras y las palabras en el acto de leer. La próxima frontera es comprender fragmentos de las conversaciones entre los genes: cómo interactúan para dirigir el crecimiento de un organismo. El autor nos lleva al núcleo de esa conversación, aclarando cómo los genes gobiernan la milagrosa transformación de una única célula madre en un ser humano y cómo continúan dirigiendo el desarrollo diario de esa persona durante el resto de su vida. Gee nos cuenta la historia de lo que sabemos sobre el genoma y lo que es probable que descubramos en un futuro más o menos próximo. A medida que avancen nuestros conocimientos, seremos capaces de dirigir con creciente autoridad las conversaciones entre los genes, no sólo realizando intervenciones médicas, sino creando guiones enteros sobre el nacimiento, la descendencia y la diversidad en un nuevo mundo feliz.

Download or read book Inequality written by Carles Lalueza-Fox and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How genomics reveals deep histories of inequality, going back many thousands of years. Inequality is an urgent global concern, with pundits, politicians, academics, and best-selling books all taking up its causes and consequences. In Inequality, Carles Lalueza-Fox offers an entirely new perspective on the subject, examining the genetic marks left by inequality on humans throughout history. Lalueza-Fox describes genetic studies, made possible by novel DNA sequencing technologies, that reveal layers of inequality in past societies, manifested in patterns of migration, social structures, and funerary practices. Through their DNA, ancient skeletons have much to tell us, yielding anonymous stories of inequality, bias, and suffering. Lalueza-Fox, a leader in paleogenomics, offers the deep history of inequality. He explores the ancestral shifts associated with migration and describes the gender bias unearthed in these migrations—the brutal sexual asymmetries, for example, between male European explorers and the women of Latin America that are revealed by DNA analysis. He considers social structures, and the evidence that high social standing was inherited—the ancient world was not a meritocracy. He untangles social and genetic factors to consider whether wealth is an advantage in reproduction, showing why we are more likely to be descended from a king than a peasant. And he explores the effects of ancient inequality on the human gene pool. Marshaling a range of evidence, Lalueza-Fox shows that understanding past inequalities is key to understanding present ones.

Download or read book El viaje de nuestros genes written by Johannes Krause and published by DEBATE. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿QUÉ DICEN NUESTROS GENES SOBRE LA ESPECIE HUMANA? ¿PODEMOS SABER DE DÓNDE VENIMOS? ¿EXISTEN LAS "PERSONAS NATIVAS"? ¿QUÉ ROL JUGÓ LA MIGRACIÓN EN LA EVOLUCIÓN? BESTSELLER DEL DIARIO ALEMÁN DER SPIEGEL El campo de la arqueogenética está experimentando una tremenda revolución científica. Una nueva generación de máquinas de secuenciación de ADN está permitiendo desentrañar los secretos ocultos de nuestros orígenes, y estos descubrimientos están transformando el mapa de la evolución humana. En El viaje de nuestros genes, Johannes Krause, líder indiscutible de esta disciplina, pone a disposición del lector un análisis minucioso de los últimos avances y, con su coautor, el periodista Thomas Trappe, los vincula a los debates políticos actuales en torno a la migración y los reasentamientos masivos, demostrando que están lejos de ser un fenómeno moderno y argumentando que en la sociedad global está la clave hacia el progreso, sobre todo para Europa. Además de responder a una serie de preguntas universales con datos prácticamente irrefutables y relatar desde el descubrimiento de un nuevo eslabón humano hasta el desarrollo de las lenguas indoeuropeas, pasando por la adaptación evolutiva a la lactosa, este libro nos confronta con la dimensión política de la genética. Una perspectiva revolucionaria de la evolución y la historia humana con el objetivo de deconstruir paradigmas y presupuestos arraigados en el imaginario común.

Download or read book Breve historia de todos los que han vivido El relato de nuestros genes written by Adam Rutherford and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Una herencia inc moda genes raza e historia humana written by Nicholas Wade and published by Grupo Planeta (GBS). This book was released on 2015 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El libro del año. Tan políticamente incorrecto como científicamente irrefutable. Escudriña las bases genéticas de la diferencia entre razas para trazar una historia del ser humano y las sociedades que integra. Buceando en las nuevas evidencias que ha dejado la descodificación del genoma humano, el periodista científico N icholas Wade nos adentra en las bases genéticas de la raza y su rol fundamental en la historia de la humanidad. Pocas ideas han sido más perniciosas que aquellas que afirman que hay razas inherentemente superiores a otras. Por esa razón, el debate sobre las diferencias biológicas entre razas ha sido completamente proscrito del ámbito científico. La evolución humana, se insiste desde un inusitado consenso, acabó en la prehistoria. No obstante, el consenso parece ser erróneo. Wade demuestra a lo largo de este libro que la evolución humana siguió su curso, que el aislamiento en el que han vivido las distintas poblaciones a lo largo de los siglos ha propiciado ese desarrollo y que existen distinciones, divergencias, en el comportamiento y por tanto en las sociedades mismas. Que, en consecuencia, atributos como el ahorro, el pacifismo, o la alfabetización, propios de las clases medias, han sido lentamente inoculados genéticamente desde la población agraria, culminado en la Revolución Industrial y la emergencia de las sociedades modernas. Rechazando sin ambages la noción de superioridad racial, este libro demuestra cómo nuestra información genetica contiene una información vital para entender nuestra historia y las sociedades que la integran, y que la mejor forma de servir al interés público es buscando incesantemente sin miedo la verdad científica.

Download or read book Mapping Human History written by Steve Olson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olson traveled through four continents to gather insights into the development of humans for this sweeping history of humanity based on a new understanding of genetics. Maps.

Download or read book Origin written by Jennifer Raff and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story—and fascinating mystery—of how humans migrated to the Americas. ORIGIN is the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes. ORIGIN provides an overview of these new histories throughout North and South America, and a glimpse into how the tools of genetics reveal details about human history and evolution. 20,000 years ago, people crossed a great land bridge from Siberia into Western Alaska and then dispersed southward into what is now called the Americas. Until we venture out to other worlds, this remains the last time our species has populated an entirely new place, and this event has been a subject of deep fascination and controversy. No written records—and scant archaeological evidence—exist to tell us what happened or how it took place. Many different models have been proposed to explain how the Americas were peopled and what happened in the thousands of years that followed. A study of both past and present, ORIGIN explores how genetics is currently being used to construct narratives that profoundly impact Indigenous peoples of the Americas. It serves as a primer for anyone interested in how genetics has become entangled with identity in the way that society addresses the question "Who is indigenous?"

Download or read book The Laws of Medicine written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world’s premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine—and how understanding these principles can empower us all. Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book, The Youngest Science, forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a “science”? Sciences must have laws—statements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine have laws like other sciences? Dr. Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this question—a question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his discipline—culminating in The Laws of Medicine. In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka! moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjee’s signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being is being treated. Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future.

Download or read book The Cooking Gene written by Michael W. Twitty and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018 A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the most provocative touch points in our ongoing struggles over race. In this unique memoir, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty takes readers to the white-hot center of this fight, tracing the roots of his own family and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue, and all Southern cuisine. From the tobacco and rice farms of colonial times to plantation kitchens and backbreaking cotton fields, Twitty tells his family story through the foods that enabled his ancestors’ survival across three centuries. He sifts through stories, recipes, genetic tests, and historical documents, and travels from Civil War battlefields in Virginia to synagogues in Alabama to Black-owned organic farms in Georgia. As he takes us through his ancestral culinary history, Twitty suggests that healing may come from embracing the discomfort of the Southern past. Along the way, he reveals a truth that is more than skin deep—the power that food has to bring the kin of the enslaved and their former slaveholders to the table, where they can discover the real America together. Illustrations by Stephen Crotts

Download or read book A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived written by Adam Rutherford and published by George Weidenfeld & Nicholson. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration and a lot of sex. In this captivating journey through the expanding landscape of genetics, Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes now tell us about human history, and what history can now tell us about our genes. From Neanderthals to murder, from redheads to race, dead kings to plague, evolution to epigenetics, this is a demystifying and illuminating new portrait of who we are and how we came to be. *** 'A thoroughly entertaining history of Homo sapiens and its DNA in a manner that displays popular science writing at its best' Observer 'Magisterial, informative and delightful' Peter Frankopan 'An extraordinary adventure...From the Neanderthals to the Vikings, from the Queen of Sheba to Richard III, Rutherford goes in search of our ancestors, tracing the genetic clues deep into the past' Alice Roberts

Download or read book DNA written by James D. Watson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive insider's history of the genetic revolution--significantly updated to reflect the discoveries of the last decade. 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 cancer research. This is the most comprehensive and authoritative exploration of DNA's impact--practical, social, and ethical--on our society and our world.

Download or read book Qui nes somos y c mo hemos llegado hasta aqu written by David Reich and published by Antoni Bosch editor. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La extracción de ADN de los huesos de nuestros ancestros ha permitido resolver importantes controversias sobre la prehistoria, hasta el punto de cambiar su interpretación. Hoy en día puede extraerse y analizarse ADN antiguo y, en buena medida gracias a las aportaciones del propio David Reich, se ha puesto de manifiesto que la genómica es tan relevante como la arqueología o la lingüística a la hora de estudiar las poblaciones del pasado. En Quiénes somos y cómo hemos llegado hasta aquí, Reich nos enseña que el genoma humano, además de aportar toda la información que necesita un óvulo humano fertilizado para desarrollarse, contiene en sí mismo la historia de nuestra especie. La revolución de la genómica y del ADN antiguo está transformando lo que sabemos sobre el linaje de los humanos y, según nos explica Reich, los estudios de ADN revelan una larga historia de desigualdad entre poblaciones distintas, así como entre ambos sexos y entre individuos de una misma población. Esta obra desmiente la interpretación ortodoxa de que no hay diferencias biológicas relevantes entre poblaciones humanas y, al mismo tiempo, utiliza los sólidos datos de la genómica para ilustrar la improbabilidad de que las diferencias, que sí existen, se correspondan con los estereotipos de siempre.

Download or read book El hilo com n de la humanidad written by John Sulston and published by Siglo XXI de España Editores. This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Sulston. director del Sanger Centre de Cambridge desde 1993 hasta 2000. encabezó el equipo británico que participó en la secuenciación del ADN humano. una hazaña realizada en un tiempo récord gracias a la extraordinaria colaboración de un equipo internacional de científicos. El éxito final del proyecto. tras numerosos reveses y una dura competencia. puede atribuirse en gran medida a la determinación. la pasión y la capacidad científica de John Sulston. Al relatar su experiencia personal. el autor nos sitúa entre bastidores de una de las empresas científicas internacionales más ambiciosas. Pone al descubierto la política. las controversias. las distintas éticas y personalidades. las contrariedades y los logros que caracterizaron los siete años de investigación. Opina con toda franqueza sobre su relación de competencia con Craig Venter y su compañía Celera. que estuvo a punto de hacer fracasar el intento de la comunidad internacional por poner la secuencia a libre disposición de todos. Sulston hace partícipe al lector de las emociones que sintió a medida que progresaba el proyecto. a la vez que. desde un punto de vista pragmático. descubre sus esperanzas y preocupaciones sobre las futuras repercusiones de la información desentrañada por el Proyecto Genoma Humano. «]ohn Sulston es una de las personalidades que han hecho posible el sueño de leer el genoma humano. Ésta es la historia de cómo. cuando otros fanfarroneaban. un científico modesto unió las técnicas. las ideas y los fondos disponibles que permitirían la secuenciación de todo el genoma. Es también la historia de su lucha en pro de una visión del genoma libremente accesible a todos. cuando muchos otros estaban dispuestos a que sólo fuera un monopolio empresarial.». Matt Ridley. autor de Genoma.

Download or read book Historia de los genes History of the genes written by Susana Gallardo and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mapping Human History Tpbk written by Olson Steve and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: