Genomes and what to make of them
By: Barry Barnes & John Dupré.
Contributors: Dupré, John.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780226172958
Subjects: Genomics; Genomes; Genomics; Genome
Description: The announcement in 2003 that the Human Genome Project had completed its map of the entire human genome was heralded as a stunning scientific breakthrough: our first full picture of the basic building blocks of human life. Since then, boasts about the benefits?and warnings of the dangers?of genomics have remained front-page news, with everyone agreeing that genomics has the potential to radically alter life as we know it. For the nonscientist, the claims and counterclaims are dizzying?what does it really mean to understand the genome? Barry Barnes and John Dupré offer an answer to that question.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: By way of background; title: Genes, genomes, and molecular genetics; title: Genomes; title: Genomics and evolution; title: Genomics and problems of explanation; title: Genomics as power; title: Natural order and human dignity.