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Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do precisely that. Gradually, people translated their old notions about heredity into a language of genes....
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 49
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author draws on his scientific knowledge and research to describe the magisterial history of a scientific idea, the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans; that governs our form, function, and fate; and that determines the future of our children. The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where Gregor Mendel, a monk working with pea...
8) Hereditary
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Obelisco S.L
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Todavía eres de los que piensas que tu historia familiar no está influyendo en tu persona? Después de leer este libro no pensarás lo mismo. Muchos problemas de pareja, falta de éxito, miedo a hablar en público, obesidad, agresividad y adicciones, entre otros, tienen su origen en lo que han vivido nuestros antepasados, abuelos y padres. Negarlo es como negar la ley de la gravedad. Quieras o no, tu historia familiar te está condicionando y...
10) Genética
Author
Publisher
Beascoa/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
¡Descubre los secretos de la ciencia con "Futuros Genios"! ¿C?mo se define el color de nuestro pelo? ¿Qu? son los genes? ¿Y las bases nitrogenadas? ¡Acompa?a a Valentina en esta fascinante exploraci?n del ADN y convi?rtete en un genio de la gen?tica! "Futuros Genios" es una colecci?n pensada para compartir un momento? de lectura y aprendizaje en familia. A trav?s de ilustraciones sencillas? y divertidas, Carlos Pazos, divulgador cient?fico conocido...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Vampire heroine Selene continues the saga of war between the aristocratic Death Dealers and the barbaric Lycans. Traces the beginnings of the ancient feud between the two tribes. Selene and her love Michael, the lycan hybrid, try to unlock the secrets of their bloodlines. The tale of action, intrigue and forbidden love takes them into the battle to end all wars as the immortals must finally face their retribution.
13) We go way back
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What is life? How did it start? Long, long ago, no one knows exactly where or when, a tiny bubble formed that was a Little Bit Different. It was the first living cell. Everyone's ancestor. And so the story of life begins."--
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Collector's set explores the full spectrum of prehistoric life, from the rise of monsters millions of years ago to the reign of dinosaurs and our own evolutionary predecessors. Includes 9 hours of programming plus almost 7 hours of special features.
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Vampire heroine Selene continues the saga of war between the aristocratic Death Dealers and the barbaric Lycans. The film traces the beginnings of the ancient feud between the two tribes. Selene and her love Michael, the lycan hybrid, try to unlock the secrets of their bloodlines. The tale of action, intrigue and forbidden love takes them into the battle to end all wars as the immortals must finally face their retribution.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"What 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 research, including his own groundbreaking work, he explains how variations in the way our brains develop before birth strongly influence our...
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