Books on 'genetics'
Total books: 30903 Page 12 of 3091
publisher: CRC Press, published: 1984-02-22
ISBN: 0824771516
sales rank: 677420
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by: Russ Hodge
publisher: Facts on File, published: 2009-05-30
ISBN: 0816066817
sales rank: 365980
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Scientists are learning to manipulate the genes of plants and animals, changing existing organisms and creating new ones. By taking control of the mechanisms that govern heredity in other species, humans are actively directing their own evolution. Breakthroughs have come so quickly that many people find them strange and frightening. "Genetic Engineering" traces the history of genetic science up to the present day and proposes some thoughts about how it is likely to affect the future. This engaging new resource describes some of the developments in the first few years of the 21st century and how society is coping with some of the ethical challenges that accompany them. Politicians and the public are now facing tremendously important choices about how genetic engineering and its products should be used. This insightful resource helps put things into perspective and gives an idea of the risks involved in genetic engineering. Ideal for high school and college students and a much broader audience with little or no scientific background, "Genetic Engineering" tells the fascinating story of where genetics came from, what it has made possible, and where it is likely to take humankind. Chapters of this title include: From Breeding to a Science of Heredity; Classical Genetics (1900-1950); Molecular Genetics - What Genes Are and How They Work (1950-1970); The Rise of Genetic Engineering (1970-1990); Genetic Engineering in the Age of Genomes; and, Ethics and Genetic Engineering.
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by: Leland Hartwell, Leroy Hood, Michael Goldberg, Lee Silver, Leland Hartwell, Leroy Hood, Michael Goldberg, Lee Silver
publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, published: 2003-03-26
ISBN: 0072462582
sales rank: 685721
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Amazon offers this study guide along with the text book as a package deal. However, the text book is the 3rd edition and the study guide is the 2nd edition, rendering it pretty much useless to my daughter. Please review this closer than my daughter did! I beleive that this is an Amazon issue more so than the fault of the publisher.
I purchased this study guide to go with the Thrid Edition of the textbook, as shown with the text book. when i recieved it, i realized that it is the second edtion and is not compatable with the third edition. just be careful of what edition you need it for.
This has got to be the worst solution manual I've encountered. My edition is copyrighted in 2004, and it still seems like it is a very rough draft. Although some of the solutions come out to be quite clear, for every one of those there is at least one that either solves the problem with unnecessary complexity or is downright wrong. This causes a lot of confusion and self-doubt for the student. Errors of this type and frequency are tolerable if they come from one's mentor, but when the solution manual comes from a publisher with such reknown as McGraw-Hill, I would expect it to be thoroughly edited and proofread. I would definitely not recommend this item unless they have a revised edition published. In the meantime, one would be much better off asking his or her professor or TA for the solutions, and discussing with them as necessary.
publisher: Barcharts, published: 2007-07-16
ISBN: 1423203062
sales rank: 190428
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by: Peter S. Harper
publisher: A Hodder Arnold Publication, published: 2004-10-07
ISBN: 034081196X
sales rank: 369193
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The counselling of those at risk from inherited disorders forms an integral and expanding part of medicine, and advances are continually being made in this area of practice. Increasingly, common disorders are known to have a genetic component, and this book provides invaluable up-to-date guidance through the profusion of new information, and the associated psychosocial and ethical considerations and concerns. Changes for the sixth edition include full coverage of the implications of the human genome project for clinical genetic practice, the expanding societal implications of human genetics, and increased coverage of genetics and common diseases, including cancer genetics. The layout of the book has been much improved and modernized, with line illustrations redrawn throughout.
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by: Suzanne B. Cassidy
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, published: 2010-04-05
ISBN: 0470191414
sales rank: 160346
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The bestselling guide to the medical management of common genetic syndromes ?now fully revised and expanded A review in the American Journal of Medical Genetics heralded the first edition of Management of Genetic Syndromes as an "unparalleled collection of knowledge." Since publication of the first edition, improvements in the molecular diagnostic testing of genetic conditions have greatly facilitated the identification of affected individuals. This thorough revision of the critically acclaimed bestseller offers original insights into the medical management of sixty common genetic syndromes seen in children and adults, and incorporates new research findings and the latest advances in diagnosis and treatment of these disorders. Expanded to cover five new syndromes, this comprehensive new edition also features updates of chapters from the previous editions. Each chapter is written by an expert with extensive direct professional experience with that disorder and incorporates thoroughly updated material on new genetic findings, consensus diagnostic criteria, and management strategies. Edited by two of the field's most highly esteemed experts, this landmark volume provides: A precise reference of the physical manifestations of common genetic syndromes, clearly written for professionals and families Extensive updates, particularly in sections on diagnostic criteria and diagnostic testing, pathogenesis, and management A tried-and-tested, user-friendly format, with each chapter including information on incidence, etiology and pathogenesis, diagnostic criteria and testing, and differential diagnosis Up-to-date and well-written summaries of the manifestations followed by comprehensive management guidelines, with specific advice on evaluation and treatment for each system affected, including references to original studies and reviews A list of family support organizations and resources for professionals and families Management of Genetic Syndromes, Third Edition is a premier source to guide family physicians, pediatricians, internists, medical geneticists, and genetic counselors in the clinical evaluation and treatment of syndromes. It is also the reference of choice for ancillary health professionals, educators, and families of affected individuals looking to understand appropriate guidelines for the management of these disorders. From a review of the first edition: "An unparalleled collection of knowledge . . . unique, offering a gold mine of information." ?American Journal of Medical Genetics
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"...a detailed practical guide for management of patients with genetic conditions...an asset to the bookshelf of any healthcare provider...also an excellent educational text..." (Journal of Genetic Counseling, Vol. 12, No. 4, August 2003)
"...quite useful to anyone...interested in a taste of what emerging technologies in genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics can bring to bear on questions of potential importance in biomedical research." (American Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 72, 2003)
Cassidy and Allanson have assembled a talented group of authors to address the more common genetic disorders. The chapters are extremely well organized and each emphasizes not only diagnostic techniques and differential diagnosis, but also patient management. The generalist will find a wealth of practical information readily available and accessible. The clinical geneticist will discover and rediscover valuable "pearls" within this text. --Edward R.B. McCabe, Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA
by: Susan McKinnon
publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press, published: 2006-02-01
ISBN: 0976147521
sales rank: 746893
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Evolutionary psychology claims to be the authoritative science of "human nature." Its chief architects, including Stephen Pinker and David Buss, have managed to reach well beyond the ivory tower to win large audiences and influence public discourse. But do the answers that evolutionary psychologists provide about language, sex, and social relations add up? Susan McKinnon thinks not. Far from being an account of evolution and social relations that has historical and cross-cultural validity, evolutionary psychology is a stunning example of a "science" that twists evolutionary genetics into a myth of human origins. As McKinnon shows, that myth is shaped by neo-liberal economic values and relies on ethnocentric understandings of sex, gender, kinship, and social relations. She also explores the implications for public policy of the moral tales that are told by evolutionary psychologists in the guise of "scientific" inquiry. Drawing widely from the anthropological record, Neo-liberal Genetics offers a sustained and accessible critique of the myths of human nature fabricated by evolutionary psychologists. (20060913)
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Susan McKinnon is a cultural anthropologist and "neo-liberal genetics" is her disparaging term for Evolutionary Psychology, a doctrine made famous by Steven Pinker, David Buss, Margo Wilson, Martin Daly, John Tooby, Leda Cosmides, and Robert Wright, among other academics in psychology, biology, and anthropology. McKinnon also offers random shots at the broader field of sociobiology, although her objections are unelaborated epithets. If you don't know what Evolutionary Psychology says, this is not the book for you, so I will assume you do. McKinnon is a fine writer, and her book is concise, accurate, fast-moving, and incisive. McKinnon says exactly what she thinks, without much hedging or qualifying, and supports her views with limpid logic and carefully though-out evidence. This book is perhaps the best brief critique of Evolutionary Psychology that I have seen. The reader interesting in exploring a particular theme more thoroughly than provided by McKinnon's necessarily brief treatment can refer to the literature she cites. McKinnon makes four basic points. Her first and most central point is that "Evolutionary psychologists build their theories...upon...a conception of human social life that reduces social relations and human behavior to the product of self-interested competition between individuals." (p. 43) How true! Indeed, Evolutionary Psychology arose precisely in a period (1970-1995) in which biological models of social cooperation were first rigorously formulated, based on genetics, population biology, and evolutionary game theory. In this formulation, individuals sacrificed only for kin, the only other form of cooperation considered feasible being "reciprocal altruism," which is the tit-for-tat reciprocal behavior of self-interested agents. McKinnon is thus correct in seeing a deep affinity between the general outlook of Evolutionary Psychology and laissez-faire style economic philosophy, which she, again disparagingly, denotes "neo-liberalism." By identifying Evolutionary Psychology with neo-liberalism, McKinnon gives the impression that Evolutionary Psychology provides a deep affirmation of right-wing economic and political theory, of the sort "human nature being what it is, free enterprise and minimal state intervention into the economy is the most desirable economic order." She never actually asserts this affinity, and it is in fact quite false. As far as I can tell, there are no socio-political differences between the population of Evolutionary Psychologists and a cross-section of academics in the behavioral sciences. This is an important point, because it implies that the Evolutionary Psychology commitment to a competitive self-regarding model of human social evolution does not harbor some deep socio-political bias, be it of the left or of the right. In particular, I have never heard an Evolutionary Psychologist defend the traditional gender division of labor. Rather, most Evolutionary Psychologists would say that we may have inherited some psychological predispositions towards a traditional sexual division of labor, but these are by no means strong enough to prevent a truly sexually egalitarian society, if we go about the process intelligently, being aware of our genetic heritage. This sounds about right to me, and is not dependent upon "genetic individualism." McKinnon is particularly naïve is identifying genetic individualism with modern capitalism. Modern capitalist societies have gone the farthest in contesting racism and sexism, and in promoting democracy and freedom. By contrast, pre-capitalist agricultural societies have fostered uncompromising systems of authoritarian patriarchy. Of course, modern capitalism is not neo-liberal (all modern societies have strongly interventionist states), but my own research indicates that market exchange itself promotes a mentality of toleration and fairness, thus helping to dissolve the ascriptive, authoritarian bonds of traditional precapitalist agrarian orders. Evolutionary Psychology does have one very important political tenet---a deep antipathy to Utopianism. The theory they espouse is especially antithetical to the notion that the Good Society can be produced by a process of "social engineering" in which Bad Culture is replaced by Good Culture, where the Bad/Good criterion is set by an enlightened elite of social reformers. Biologists in formative period of Evolutionary Psychology considered their models of cooperation arising out of mutual self-interest as the triumph of scientific over the wooly wishful thinking of social reformers who prefer to see potentially limitless altruism and unbounded compassion among the qualities that can be successfully instilled in most members of our species. The Evolutionary Psychologists saw otherwise. Richard Dawkins, author of the famous manifesto "The Selfish Gene," for instance, claimed that "we are survival machines--robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This gene selfishness will usually give rise to selfishness in individual behavior." Similarly, Evolutionary Psychologist Michael Ghiselin a few years later asserted, "What passes for cooperation [in nature] turns out to be a mixture of opportunism and exploitation. . . Scratch an altruist, and watch a hypocrite bleed." It is actually an irony of intellectual history that Evolutionary Psychology accepted this doctrine of what McKinnon calls "genetic individualism" and "neo-liberal genetics" (the title of the book). The key concept of sociobiology, a broader doctrine than Evolutionary Psychology, is in fact much broader, and not at all wedded to the doctrine of genetic individualism. Rather, sociobiology is predicated on the insight that there are many social species and they should be studied using genetics, population biology, and evolutionary theory. Sociobiology was treated with fear and loathing by establishment anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists, not because if its "neo-liberal genetics," but rather because it denied what Leda Cosmides and John Tooby called the Standard Social Science Model (SSSM), which posited that humans are "tabula rasa," implying that human nature does not exist, and humans can be culturally programmed in any way at all. Social reformers are enamored of the SSSM because it promises that all social ills can cured by installing the appropriate cultural forms and socialization processes. Socialists can teach people to give according to ability and take according to need, feminists can teach people that there are no differences between men and women other than the obvious physiological ones, supporters of capitalism can teach the sanctity of property as well as the propriety of a competitive meritocracy, and liberals can teach pure tolerance. For a chronology of the scorn and hostility heaped upon sociobiology for undermining the SSSM, see the excellent book by Ullica Segerstrale, "Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate," (Oxford University Press, 2001). Evolutionary psychologists thus inherited a peculiar view of human nature from the dominant biological models of the 1970's, and have stuck to it with cultish fervor, even as it is being abandoned today in the light of a considerable body of empirical evidence incompatible with genetic individualism. McKinnon's second criticism is that Evolutionary Psychologists identify self-interest with reproductive interest, and hence view all social arrangements as tools utilized by selfish individuals in maximizing their reproductive success. This Evolutionary Psychology position is of course patently absurd in modern society, where the ubiquity of the demographic transition implies that when a certain level of per capital income is a achieved in a society, families begin sharply curtailing their reproductive output. McKinnon shows, by use of fine examples from cultural anthropology that many pre-modern societies also have sophisticated cultural practices that materially weaken the genetic linkages among people in favor of more flexible social linkages. The same could be said, of course, of modern societies such as ours. McKinnon's third criticism is that Evolutionary Psychology embraces a modular theory of mental processes, and humans possess no "general intelligence," that might be deployed to help us to adjust mentally to modern technological society. The modular theory of the human mind was never very plausible, but every year that goes by gives us additional evidence against this bizarre theory. McKinnon supplies many of the key arguments, although I would also read David C. Geary, "The Origin of Mind: Evolution of Brain, Cognition, and General Intelligence" (American Psychological Association, 2005). McKinnon's final criticism is that Evolutionary Psychologists embrace a highly simplistic theory of human culture, according to which culture is an epiphenomenal overlay masking and reflecting the true determinant of human behavior, which is the genetically programmed quest for reproductive success. Evolutionary Psychologists tend to deny this, but their protests are belied by the structure of their theory. For instance, David Buss argues that there are stereotypical behaviors of men and women which are virtually the same in all societies (women want materially successful men and men want young, fertile women). A proponent of the importance of culture would interpret this tendency by asserting that (a) it is not universal, and (b) it is a common-sense behavior in societies where males are dominant possessors. I find Buss's data impressive, but I believe that the genetic predispositions underlying these stereotypes are limited to the obvious physiological differences between the sexes (ability to gestate and deliver young, relative upper body strength), and these differences, which are of great historical importance, become of marginal importance in advanced technological societies. I often wonder why Evolutionary Psychologists embrace this particular quartet of implausible theories. I think that this is explained in part by a certain mental set adopted from the many cultist movements of the highly politicized years 1970-1985 in the United States. Evolutionary Psychology is indeed a cult, in the sense that its practitioners believe that if they abandon any one of its core doctrines, it will fall apart completely. This is not the case. The weakness of McKinnon's book is that, by demolishing the bizarre doctrines of Evolutionary Psychology, she appears to believe that she has reestablished the SSSM! The Cosmides-Tooby critique remains devastating, and the notion that "culture" is not constrained by "human nature" is just bald-facedly wrong. McKinnon stresses cross-cultural variability, but she never mentions the fact that there are a huge number of human universals exhibited in almost all societies (see the excellent 1991 book by Donald E. Brown, "Human Universals," for an overview). McKinnon appears never to have heard of gene-culture coevolution, although she mentions Clifford Geertz' prescient speculations about the effects of culture on genes. This is a shame, because gene-culture coevolution is the key to understanding just how important human culture has been in creating human nature. For instance, I cannot imagine how one would explain the physiology of speech, the hormonal characteristics of the secondary emotions (especially guilt, shame, and empathy) without a careful analysis of the interrelationship between culture and genes in our evolution as a species. There is a world of modern sociobiology out there that McKinnon either does not know, or that she knows and chooses to hide from the reader. If she has some problem with this literature, it would be nice if we found out what this problem is. To my mind, cultural anthropology without gene-culture coevolution is like biology without evolution. Nothing in human life makes sense except in the light of gene-culture coevolution.
A short, devastating book that takes on the "conventional wisdom" of evolutionary psychology as presented by Steven Pinker and his acolytes (as well as, increasingly, in the popular press and among the generally educated.) McKinnon is a fantastic writer, very clear, very "honest" (despite being in a discipline often considered part of the humanities, she has a scientist's respect for facts -- and makes a convincing case that, for all their pretentions to scientific rigor, the evolutionary psychologists often don't.) If you've ever made an argument based on evolutionary psychology, or have found yourself intrigued by the claims made by the field to explain cultural phenomena (gender relations, religious traditions, economic behavior, etc.), you really owe it to yourself to read McKinnon's nuanced and currently unfashionable argument for the autonomy of culture over biology. I can't recommend this book enough.
publisher: Churchill Livingstone, published: 2006-11-15
ISBN: 0443100772
sales rank: 828135
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This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It starts with the origin of life and ends with the mechanisms that make muscles adapt to different forms of training. In between, it considers how evidence has been obtained about the extent of genetic influence on human capacities, how muscles and their fibres are studied for general properties and individual differences, and how molecular biological techniques have been combined with physiological ones to produce the new discipline of molecular exercise physiology. This is the first book on such topics written specifically for modules in exercise and sport science at final year Hons BSc and taught MSc levels.
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by: Anthony J.F. Griffiths
publisher: W. H. Freeman, published: 2002-03-15
ISBN: 0716747146
sales rank: 710126
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Modern Genetic Analysis - with CD-ROM 2nd edition, the second introductory genetics textbook W.H. Freeman has published by the Griffiths author team, implements an innovative approach to teaching genetics. Rather than presenting material in historical order, the text integrates molecular genetics with classical genetics. The integrated approach provides students with a concrete foundation in molecules, while simultaneously building an understanding of the more abstract elements of transmission genetics. The book also incorporates greater attention to pedagogy, improved chapter organization, enhanced art, and a better overall design, making it a more effective learning tool.
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This book takes a while to get to the point and has a tendency to repeat itself. Aside from all the digressions and redundancy, not a bad read.
I'm very impressed with the excercises in the end of every chapter. The excercises are fun and not too difficult.The material is very well illustrated. Again, good work .
Genetics has traditionally been taught with the topics in historical order, starting with Mendel and only later reaching molecular genetics. However, it is much more logical to explain Mendelian genetics in the context of molecular genetics. (No other science abandons a logical building-up of concepts in return for historical chronology!) Griffiths and colleagues are the first to write a text with this preferable and long-overdue approach. Their overall organization is the best that I've seen. While many of the chapters are very well written, there are some parts of the book that are substandard and hopelessly jumbled, such as the chapter on mutational mechanisms and DNA repair. As this is a first edition, I am optimistic that these problems will be ironed out in the second edition. Another criticism is that the figures are adequate but not outstanding; the artists should take lessons from their colleagues who worked on Genetics: From Genes to Genomes by Hartwell and colleagues. Despite its drawbacks, I prefer this text to others that are available.
by: Ronald W Dudek
publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, published: 2009-04-01
ISBN: 0781799945
sales rank: 437880
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Widely used by medical students studying for the USMLE Step 1, the Board Review Series (BRS) provides basic knowledge as it relates to clinical situations. BRS Genetics addresses a field that is increasingly taught in shorter courses. Chapters are written in an outline format and include pedagogical features such as bolded key words, tables, algorithms, and numerous illustrations, including a 16-page full-color insert. The book contains nearly 300 USMLE-style questions to help test students' memorization and mastery. A companion Website includes a question bank as well as fully searchable text.
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Total 30903 books of 3091 pages