Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body by Armand Marie Leroi

Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body

Armand Marie Leroi

448 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced

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Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it--a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing Homer's Cyclops, are born with a singl...

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