Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, Taming Our Primal Instincts - Brossura

Burnham, Terry; Phelan, Jay

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ISBN 10: 0142000078 ISBN 13: 9780142000076

Casa editrice: Penguin Group USA, 2001

Riassunto

A thoughtful exploration of the role genes play in human behavior concludes that many of the big human concerns--body image, money, addiction, violence, and the search for happiness--are influenced by but not completely determined by genes. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"The Mean Genes message is optimistic...a self-help book for the merely average human being." —The Washington Post Book World

"An unusual cross between a social Darwinist monograph and a self-help manual." —The New Yorker

L'autore:

Terry Burnham, Ph.D., is a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School. He co-founded Progenics, a publicly traded biotechnology firm with promising treatments for cancer and AIDS.
Jay Phelan, Ph.D., is a biology professor at UCLA. His main area of research is evolutionary genetics and aging.

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• Editore: Penguin Group USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0142000078
• ISBN 13: 9780142000076
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 263