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Index
Welcome
Frontispiece
Epigraph
Introduction
PART I: A, C, G, T, AND YOU: HOW TO READ A GENETIC SCORE
1. Genes, Freaks, DNA: How Do Living Things Pass Down Traits to Their Children?
2. The Near Death of Darwin: Why Did Geneticists Try to Kill Natural Selection?
3. Them’s the DNA Breaks: How Does Nature Read—and Misread—DNA?
4. The Musical Score of DNA: What Kinds of Information Does DNA Store?
PART II: OUR ANIMAL PAST: MAKING THINGS THAT CRAWL AND FROLIC AND KILL
5. DNA Vindication: Why Did Life Evolve So Slowly—Then Explode in Complexity?
6. The Survivors, the Livers: What’s Our Most Ancient and Important DNA?
7. The Machiavelli Microbe: How Much Human DNA Is Actually Human?
8. Love and Atavisms: What Genes Make Mammals Mammals?
9. Humanzees and Other Near Misses: When Did Humans Break Away from Monkeys, and Why?
PART III: GENES AND GENIUSES: HOW HUMANS BECAME ALL TOO HUMAN
10. Scarlet A’s, C’s, G’s, and T’s: Why Did Humans Almost Go Extinct?
11. Size Matters: How Did Humans Get Such Grotesquely Large Brains?
12. The Art of the Gene: How Deep in Our DNA Is Artistic Genius?
PART IV: THE ORACLE OF DNA: GENETICS IN THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
13. The Past Is Prologue—Sometimes: What Can (and Can’t) Genes Teach Us About Historical Heroes?
14. Three Billion Little Pieces: Why Don’t Humans Have More Genes Than Other Species?
15. Easy Come, Easy Go? How Come Identical Twins Aren’t Identical?
16. Life as We Do (and Don’t) Know It: What the Heck Will Happen Now?
Epilogue: Genomics Gets Personal
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Sam Kean
Notes and Errata
Selected Bibliography
Table of Contents
Copyright Page
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