Next
Subtitle: A Novel
By: Michael Crichton
Edition: 1st Harper paperback printing
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2007 12
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 547
ISBN-13: 9780060873165
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Apes; Genetics; Fiction; Mutation (Biology); Lawyers; Parrots; Scientists; Biotechnology
Description: Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future—it’s the world right now. Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why an adult human being resembles a chimp fetus? And should that worry us? There’s a new genetic cure for drug addiction—is it worse than the disease?

We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it’s possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars; test our spouses for genetic maladies and even frame someone for a genetic crime. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes...

Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn.
source: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780060873165/next/
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [538]-547).
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