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| By: Dawson Church ISBN: 1600700225 Publisher: Elite Books Release Date: 30 April, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 9691 | Well The Biology of Belief, Genie in Your Genes and The Human Antenna must be read as one book. People who think this book is not good enough shall pay a little more and buy the other two that i mentioned and they will be delighted. Read my review of The Great Field as well. This is a master piece in the genre of Epigenetics along with others that i mentioned. Money well invested. I enjoyed every minute of it :) Your book is a special one that I am reading tastefully slow so as to understand every profound word that I can digest. I hope I will be able to absorb and retain it all, and I have to highlight it to make sure that I remember certain insights. Superb explanations of the intelligence of my cells in an understandable way for me." <br /> <br />Kerstin Warkentin I love the scientific studies in this book which examine the existence of ties between the mind and body! I read this book in 2 days--it was so fascinating! Prior to reading this book I had studied a variety of the energy therapies and other topics discussed in this book, but it was great to have so much of the related research put into one volume. Whether you are also ready into energy therapies, just investigating the mind-body connection, or are skeptical of it all, this is a must-have book for your library. It is one of the best (most thorough) on these topics I have read, and the resources contained within are worth knowing about. Science is finally catching up with experience! | |
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| By: Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb ISBN: 0262600692 Publisher: The MIT Press Release Date: 01 October, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 89795 | I loved the book's treatment of genetic and epigenetic inheritance systems (dimensions 1 and 2). I appreciated the discussion of behavioral inheritance systems (dimension 3). I wasn't sold on the fourth dimension (symbolic inheritance systems) being fundamentally different than the third.
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<br />All that aside as an undergraduate psych student, without a ton of genetics under my belt, this was an enlightening read.
<br /> I was floored by this book. I've had to abandon (or rather enlarge) the gene-centered view of inheritance and evolution that I'd become comfortable with and embrace this new perspective. Nature is far more complex and subtle than the textbooks would indicate. The refreshing part of the book is that Darwin is postulated to trump the Modern Synthesis by offering a broader and vaguer model. Mostly however, allusions and overinterpretations of re-hashed phenomena and a few recent twists like siRNA, are offered as still-unconvincing examples in a systematic attempt to argue epigenetics as having important biological and evolutionary roles. Yes, some aspects of biology and evolution are somewhat complex, but vague hand waving about epigenetics does not clarify them. | |
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| By: C. David Allis, Thomas Jenuwein, Danny Reinberg, Marie-Laure Caparros ISBN: 0879697245 Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Release Date: 31 October, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 111117 | It is becoming clear that epigenetic mechanisms are responsible for a large number of "genetic" events in the organism, both under normal and pathological circumstances. This advanced text (suitable for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students) brings together, in a very readable way, the various mechanisms of epigenetic heredity. Epigenetics is a scientific textbook written to teach advanced undergraduate and graduate college students about epigenetic mechanisms, which regulate gene expression in many biological processes. Chapters cover histone modifications, chromatin remodeling, DNA methylation, siRNAs and gene silencing, X-chromosome inactivation, epigenetics in microbes, plants, insects and mammals, and much more. An in-depth, scholarly, and informative instructional reference, interspersed with occasional color photographs and diagrams, featuring an extensive list of references and a general summary at the end of each chapter to aid comprehension. An invaluable educational tool for specialized college science courses, as well as for professionals in the field of biology seeking to sharpen their understanding of modern epigenetics. Wikipedia says: 'Epigenetics is the study of epigenetic inheritance, a set of reversible heritable changes in gene function or other cell phenotype that occur without a change in DNA sequence (genotype).' <br /> <br />That's a pretty general definition, and you can get into some pretty good arguments that this or that word should be changed. <br /> <br />The fundamental discoveries that began the field began to be discussed in 1941, but it grew slowly until fairly recent years. By 2004 the science had developed enough that the 69th Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology covered the topic. Many of the authors of this book attended that symposium and the seeds for this book were sown. <br /> <br />The book was written by about forty of the preeminent researchers in the field. It consists of 24 chapters covering virtually all known aspects of the subject. It can serve as a reference work for the current state of the art, or could be used as a text for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses on gene regulation. | |
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| By: Moyra Smith ISBN: 0195174321 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Release Date: 27 October, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 525467 | ||
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| By: Sarah C. R. Elgin, Jerry L. Workman ISBN: 019963890X Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Release Date: 15 February, 2001 Bioscience book rank: 1049539 | I loved this book and the way it was organized. I read, highlighted, and dogeared this book from cover to cover. It was not hard to read, it has good sized print and clear illustrations. It is very well organized into 'bite-sized' chapters, and the transition from author to author (each chapter having been written by a different specialist in the field) was very smooth, without repetition of the same information in the introduction to each chapter. This is a great book, and my only criticism of it is that it is getting a bit dated, having been written in 1995. Its definitely time for a second edition. (In fact I have purchased most of the 'Frontiers in Molecular Biology' series, and find them all to be lucid, entertaining, and easy to read. But perhaps its time for a second edition to the whole series.) Greg Doheny (Vancouver B.C.) | |
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| By: Jorg Tost ISBN: 1904455239 Publisher: Not Avail Release Date: 02 January, 2008 Bioscience book rank: 1129197 | ||
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| By: Bruce Stillman, David Stewart ISBN: 0879697318 Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pr Release Date: 30 July, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 274038 | ||
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| By: Peter B. Becker ISBN: 0896036650 Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 15 August, 1999 Bioscience book rank: 1158803 | ||
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| By: B. M. Turner ISBN: 0865427437 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Release Date: 08 February, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 946489 | ||
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| By: Trygve O. Tollefsbol ISBN: 158829336X Publisher: Humana Press Release Date: 23 July, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 413446 | ||
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