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Bioinformatics Scientist - The Comprehensive Guide

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Researchers Aim to Unlock Genetic Data Goldmine

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The Genetic Age

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Genetic Engineering

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Genome

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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

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13 hours 40 min

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Sexual Selection

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by Juan Enriquez, Steve Gullans ...

Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

Unabridged

10 hours 50 min

A sweeping, paradigm-shifting account of how evolution is no longer driven just by nature but also by human choicesWhy are conditions like autism, asthma, obesity, and allergies exploding at unprecedented rates? Why are we living longer, getting smarter, having far fewer kids? If Darwin was alive today, how would he explain this new world?Today’s humans have developed such profound capabilities ... Read more

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The Genetic Book of the Dead

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Unabridged

10 hours 6 min

Bloomsbury presents The Genetic Book of the Dead, written and read by Richard Dawkins.From one of the world’s great science writers, a book that explores the deepest principles of evolutionary history.In this groundbreaking new approach to the evolution of all life, Richard Dawkins shows how the body, behaviour, and genes of every living creature can be read as a book – an archive of the worlds of ... Read more

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Professor Betsey Dexter Dyer examines the wideranging field of genetics, which is the study of the hereditary information of organisms, how it is used, and how it is transferred through generations. These fascinating lectures also address DNA sequences and how they apply to "genetic engineering," viruses, and genetic diseases such as cancers and birth defects. In addition to examining why people ... Read more

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Genetics in the Madhouse

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by Theodore M. Porter ...

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Unabridged

14 hours 1 min

In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing ... Read more

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In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing
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Innate

How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are

by Kevin J. Mitchell ...

Narrated by Michael Page ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you thinkWhat makes you the way you are—and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual differences to their deepest level: in the wiring of our brains. Deftly guiding us through important new ... Read more

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Bioinformatics Scientist - The Comprehensive Guide

The Genome War

Researchers Aim to Unlock Genetic Data Goldmine

History of Genetic Engineering

The Genetic Age

Genetic Engineering

p53

Valley of Forgetting

The Lost Family

The Building Blocks of Human Life: Understanding Mature Cells and Stem Cells

The Philadelphia Chromosome

Mapping Humanity

Longevity Science and Antiaging Research

Homeschooling Made Easy

The Tangled Tree

Genome

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Sexual Selection

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Evolving Ourselves

The Genetic Book of the Dead

The Basics of Genetics

Genetics in the Madhouse

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