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Mutants

On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

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Mutants

By: Armand Marie Leroi
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
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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).

©2003 Armand Marie Leroi (P)2019 Tantor Anthropology Biological Sciences Evolution & Genetics Genetics History History & Philosophy Science Social Sciences
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Packed full of so much fascinating information.

The prologue and first 5 mins had me thinking boring, but once it got going it was excellent

Fascinating

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The amount of times the words negro was used shocked me for a book written in 2019. It was a very informative read though and I enjoyed the performance other than that

I enjoyed the performance of this book.

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I enjoyed the book quite well, but I didn't like the the old fashioned language in the translation which wasn't from the evidence from old fashioned texts.

the evidence of mutants in Roman and greek literature

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