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Detailed United States demographic information including data on income, age, education level, consumer spending, and housing, combined with a powerful mapping tool and reporting capabilities you can use for business analysis.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
ix, 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Paabo's mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009. From Paabo, we learn how Neanderthal genes offer a unique window into the lives of our hominin relatives and may hold the key to unlocking the mystery...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 369 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Crisscrossing the continent, a renowned geneticist provides a groundbreaking examination of America through its DNA.
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how a scientist linked the DNA found in a five-thousand-year-old man to modern-day relatives and explains how all modern individuals can trace their genetic makeup back to prehistoric times to seven primeval women.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 335 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking book about how technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies. Massive technological innovations now allow scientists to extract and analyze ancient DNA as never before, and it has become clear--in part from David Reich's own contributions to the field--that genomics is as important a means of understanding...
11) The genius in all of us: why everything you've been told about genetics, talent, and IQ is wrong
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Genius in All of Us, author David Shenk unveils new scientific research to put the kibosh on the long-standing notion concerning genetic giftedness. Infusing genetics and biology research with cognitive science and child development studies, Shenk presents a refreshingly optimistic discussion on human potential.
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
x, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Considers the alignment of genetic science with commercial genealogy, with legal and forensic developments, and with pharmaceutical innovation to examine how these trends lend renewed authority to biological understandings of race and history. Various contributors explore the emerging and often contested connections among race, DNA, and history. From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and journalist Thomas Trappe offer a new way of understanding our past, present, and future. Krause is a pioneer in the revolutionary new science of archaeogenetics, archaeology augmented by revolutionary DNA sequencing technology, which has allowed scientists to uncover a new version of human history reaching back more than 100,000 years. Using this technology to...
14) Fatal invention: how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the ways science, politics, and large corporations affect race in the twenty-first century, discussing the efforts and results of the Human Genome Project, and describing how technology-driven science researchers are developing a genetic definition of race.
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