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1) The invisible history of the human race: how DNA and history shape our identities and our futures
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How biology, psychology, and history shape us as individuals. We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? In The Invisible History of the Human Race Christine Kenneally draws on cutting-edge research to reveal how both historical artifacts and DNA tell us where we come from and where we may be going. While some books explore our genetic inheritance and popular television...
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and career of Rosalind Franklin, a British molecular biologist who played a vital role in the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Rosalind Franklin, a scientist whose work was crucial in the discovery of the famous double-helix structure of DNA, but who went without credit for years.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxx, 494 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An insightful history of the first hundred years of DNA, Unraveling The Double Helix tells the story one of the greatest triumphs of modern science. Unraveling the Double Helix covers the most colorful period in the history of DNA, from the discovery of "nuclein" in the late 1860s to the publication of James Watson's The Double Helix in 1968. These hundred years included the establishment of the Nobel Prize, antibiotics, x-ray crystallography, the...
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species--births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away--until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely...
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