Martin Lercher, Itai Yanai

The Society of Genes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ist die Zwiebel die Krone der Schöpfung? Immerhin hat sie wesentlich mehr Gene als der Mensch. Wie hat es die Menschheit dennoch geschafft, alle anderen Arten zu übertreffen? Martin Lercher und Itai Yanai, "zwei der klügsten Köpfe ihres Forschungsbereichs" (Eric Lander, MIT), zeigen, wie sich das aktive Zusammenspiel der Gene und der Evolution tief in uns abspielt - und was uns zum Menschen macht.

Ein bahnbrechendes Buch. Pointiert, gedankenreich und fesselnd geschrieben.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 146mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780674425026
• ISBN-10: 0674425022
• Artikelnr.: 42576770

Autorenporträt

Itai Yanai is Associate Professor of Biology at the Technion¿Israel Institute of Technology and a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Prologue Chapter 1. Evolving Cancer in Eight Easy Steps A Disease of the Genome Cancer's Wish List One Renegade Genome Speaking of Genes One Step Forward, One Step Back Chapter 2. How Your Enemies Define You The Society of Genes How Bacteria Hold a Grudge A Random Mug-Shot Generator What Would Darwin Do? Double Agents and Baby Giraffes Lamarck's Milk Chapter 3. What's the Point of Having Sex? The Advantages of Sex: Beyond the Obvious Sex Is Egalitarian Big Stakes, Big Cheating This Is Not about You The Genomic Battle of the Sexes Chapter 4. The Clinton Paradox In and Out of Africa Evolution You Can Taste and See The Lucky Gene Africa's Genomic Cornucopia In Spite of Our Genes Chapter 5. Promiscuous Genes in a Complex Society Peas, Brother Guilt by Association The Rotting Ship of Theseus Promiscuous Teams in Bacteria The Perfect Drug Chapter 6. The Chuman Show Genomes in Flux The Key That Jams the Lock A Touching Family Reunion Better Than Sex Make Love, Not War Chapter 7. It's in the Way That You Use It Speak Up Big Brain Theory Genetic Turn-Ons Master Regulators and Hopeful Monsters Chapter 8. Theft, Imitation, and the Roots of Innovation An Eye from an Eye All in the Family The Society's Lego Set The Export/Import Business Chapter 9. A Secret Life in the Shadows The Birth of a Kingdom If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them Long Live the Prokaryotes Chapter 10. Life's Unwinnable War against Freeloaders The Bottom Line The Spandrels of San Marco Life's Oldest Enemy Biology for Beginners Epilogue Further Reading Acknowledgments Index

Rezensionen

Yanai and Lercher invite the reader to step back and observe how genes assemble together to make a global genetic system, or genome... [It] largely succeeds in translating the findings of an esoteric science into something that is easily understood... The Society of Genes represents a timely and welcome handbook for navigating this postgenomic era.
-- Joseph Swift Science
Using findings from the molecular revolution that only really got going in the 1980s, the authors build up a picture of networks of genes forming guilds in order to preserve their DNA dynasties... [This] lively text contain[s] a panorama of examples illustrating how genes do better by combining forces in networks.
-- Charalambos P. Kyriacou Times Higher Education
Yanai and Lercher use the idea of a society of genes as a vantage point from which to reintroduce the entire field of evolutionary genetics... Even experienced readers are likely to encounter perspectives that are unexpected enough to make the book worth their effort... Readers meeting biology for the first time will be well served by this richer, more nuanced, way of viewing genetics, while those with a deeper background will find plenty of interest, notably in the vivid clarity of the explanations.
-- Bob Holmes New Scientist
If you're looking for a 'what's hot in genetics in 2016,' this book wouldn't be a bad place to start. It covers a huge number of topics-from the basics of genetics to genome editing, antimicrobial resistance and the functions of junk DNA... We need books like this.
-- Simon Hazelwood-Smith BioNews
The writing is engaging and clear, providing ample introductory material to ensure that the interested lay reader will be swept along by both the science and the evolutionary story...For the general reader, Yanai and Lercher's discussions of cancer, immunology, sexual reproduction, and population genetics are well worth exploring.
-- Publishers Weekly
Written by two of the smartest young thinkers in their fields, The Society of Genes is an absorbing, thought-provoking exploration of the intersection of genetics, evolutionary biology, and society.
-- Eric Lander, Professor of Biology at MIT and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
The Society of Genes is punchy, provocative, and timely and a must-read for us all.
-- Michael Levitt, Professor of Structural Biology at Stanford University and Recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Well worth the interested reader's attention.
-- M. Taylor Choice