Beyond DNA
How Epigenetics Is Transforming Our Understanding of Evolution
$64.00
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
12 September 2023
Summary
Beyond DNA is a journey through uncharted territory, advancing new ways of thinking about evolution and adaptation. For nearly a hundred years, evolutionary biologists have understood that evolution proceeds by substituting better genes for less good ones. But consensus is growing that this is not the whole story. Geneticists are now revealing that spores, sperm, pollen, and ova are packed with personalized genetic information that plays an important role in offspring development and has life…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522878868 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522878865 |
| Author: | Benjamin Oldroyd |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 12 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 380g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 241mm x 155mm |
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About The Author
Benjamin Oldroyd
Benjamin Oldroyd is Emeritus Professor of Behavioural Genetics at the University of Sydney. In 2020 Oldroyd was a resident fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Berlin, from where he edited a special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London on epigenetics and evolution and wrote this book. Oldroyd is an experimental scientist who has published more than 300 scientific papers, mostly on honey bees and their evolution.
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