num_pages: 448
description: 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 single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity. This elegant, humane, and engaging book "captures what we know of the development of what makes us human" (Nature).Visit Armand Marie Leroi on the web: http: //armandleroi.com/index.htmlStepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science,
language: English
title: Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
titlecomplete: Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
genres: Biology, Genetics, Science, Health, Medicine, Evolution, Medical, Nonfiction, History, Anthropology
ratings_count: 3753
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Guardian First Book Award
publisher: Penguin Books