The Book of Man: The Human Genome Project and the Quest to Discover Our Genetic Heritage
- ISBN-10
- 0684801027
- ISBN-13
- 9780684801025
- Series
- The Book of Man
- Category
- Gene mapping
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Walter Fred Bodmer
Description
A history and analysis of the Human Genome Project, the massive international effort to map each of the three billion molecules that make up human DNA
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Other editions
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- 1997
- 274 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
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