Mutants

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).

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Mutantii ofera o relatare stralucitoare a codului nostru genetic si a persoanelor captivante ale caror corpuri l-au dezvaluit - o fata de manastire franceza care s-a trezit schimband sex la pubertate; copii care, repetand ciclopul lui Homer, se nasc cu un singur ochi in mijlocul fruntii; un sat de pitici croati de lunga durata; o familie, ale carei corpuri erau in intregime acoperite cu par, a fost tinuta la curtea regala birmana timp de patru generatii si i-a oferit lui Darwin una dintre cele mai intelepte intelegeri ale sale asupra ereditatii.