How new humans are made
Subtitle: cells and embryos, twins and chimeras, left and right, mind/self/soul sex, and schizophrenia
By: Charles E. Boklage.
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Jersey
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789812835130
Subjects: Embryology, Human; Twins; Schizophrenia -- Genetic aspects; Human genetics; Reproduction -- physiology; Functional Laterality; Schizophrenia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Human, by [cellular & developmental] definition : emergence of life, of mind, of self, of soul, of person; title: Genetic twin studies of schizophrenia : mind/brain asymmetry : multifactorial inheritance and epigenetic variation; title: Reviewing/reciting the orthodoxy; title: On the zygosity of twins; title: Most twins are not twins; title: Natural history and epidemiology of twins and twinning; title: The chorion, the amnion, and the vertebrate body plan; title: Each of us was once a single cell or two : meiosis, gametogenesis, syngamy, embryogenesis; title: Getting to the bottom of creation's best trick : how human lives begin; title: Timing is everything; title: Twins and handedness and [illusions of] mirror-imaging; title: Twins and malformations; title: Twins and teeth and (the realities of) mirror-imaging; title: The oddest of couples : boy-girl twins; title: The Weinberg tautology and the lingering perfume of red herring; title: Twinning and spontaneous chimerism; title: Finding the right answer is much easier : after finding the right question; title: Normal embryogenesis of left and right, and twins, and chimeras; title: The logic of DNA genotyping and forensic implications of chimerism.