Identically Different: Why We Can Change Our Genes - Hardcover

Spector, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 146830660X ISBN 13: 9781468306606

Verlag: Overlook Pr, 2013

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Book by Spector Tim

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"Spector will get you through many dinner parties. But, much more importantly, he will show how a certain kind of scientific fundamentalism collapsed under the burden of its inability to explain the world as it is Read him." --"Sunday Times""

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How much are the things you choose to do everyday--what you eat, how you vote, who you love--determined by your genes, and how much is your own free will? Using fascinating case studies of identical twins, leading geneticist Tim Spector explains how even real-life "clones" with the same upbringing turn out in reality to be very different. Drawing on his own cutting-edge research in genetics, Spector show us that nothing is completely hard-wired or pre-ordained. Challenging, enlightening and entertaining, Identically Different explores topics as varied as why the Dutch have become the tallest nation in the world, why autism is more heritable than breast cancer, and what could cause a healthy man to have a heart attack within weeks of his overweight, heavy smoking identical twin. Spector's probing and thoughtful study helps us to understand what makes each of us so unique.

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• Verlag: Overlook Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 146830660X
• ISBN 13: 9781468306606
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 338