$34.39
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
8 September 2003
Summary
Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their sex had at last been dispensed with. Dolly the Sheep - conceived without male assistance - had arrived. Her birth reminded at least half the population of how precarious man’s position may be. What is the point of being a man? For a brief and essential instant he is a donor of DNA; but outside that glorious moment his role is hard to understand.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349113890 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349113890 |
| Author: | Professor Steve Jones, Steve Jones |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 2003 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 130mm x 20mm |
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This is science communication at its best: up-to-date, authoritative, witty and packed with human interest. Not just a book for blokes: required reading, too, for every woman who wants to know her enemy - New Scientist
A sure-fire hit - IndependentSteve Jones’s ideas drive me almost mad with wonder - Bob GeldofStacked full of wonderful anecdotes and vignettes - THESAbout The Author
Professor Steve Jones
Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College, London and has worked at universities in the USA, Australia and Africa. He gave the Reith Lectures in 1991 and presented a BBC TV series on human genetics and evolution in 1996. He is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph.
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