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  • Genetic Justice

    DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties

    by Sheldon Krimsky, Tania Simoncelli ...
    National DNA databanks were initially established to catalogue the identities of violent criminals and sex offenders. However, since the mid-1990s, forensic DNA databanks have in some cases expanded to include people merely arrested, regardless of whether they've been charged or convicted of a crime. The public is largely unaware of these changes and the advances that biotechnology and forensic ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • 10% Human

    How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

    by Alanna Collen ...
    An evolutionary biologist and science writer explores the widely-ignored role our gut microbes play in our health and well-being.You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over your lifetime, you will ... Read more

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  • The God Gene

    How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes

    by Dean H. Hamer ...
    The overwhelming majority of Americans believe in God; this conviction has existed since the beginning of recorded time and is shared by billions around the world. In The God Gene, Dr. Dean Hamer reveals that this inclination towards religious faith is in good measure due to our genes and may even offer an evolutionary advantage by reducing stress, preventing disease, and extending life.Popular ... Read more

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  • Fundamentals of Forensic DNA Typing

    by John M. Butler ...
    Fundamentals of Forensic DNA Typing is written with a broad viewpoint. It examines the methods of current forensic DNA typing, focusing on short tandem repeats (STRs). It encompasses current forensic DNA analysis methods, as well as biology, technology and genetic interpretation. This book reviews the methods of forensic DNA testing used in the first two decades since early 1980's, and it offers ... Read more

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  • Forensic DNA Biology

    A Laboratory Manual

    by Kelly M. Elkins ...
    DNA typing has revolutionized criminal investigations and has become a powerful tool in the identification of individuals in criminal and paternity cases. Forensic DNA Biology: A Laboratory Manual is comprised of up-to-date and practical experiments and step-by-step instructions on how to perform DNA analysis, including pipetting, microscopy and hair analysis, presumptive testing of body fluids ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Genetics and the Social Behavior of the Dog

    by John Paul Scott, John L. Fuller ...
    The classic study of canine behavior: "A major authoritative work…Immensely rewarding reading for anyone concerned with dog-breeding."— Times Literary SupplementBased on twenty years of research at the Jackson Laboratory, this is the single most important and comprehensive reference work on the behavior of dogs ever compiled, written by geneticist and comparative psychologist John Paul Scott, ... Read more

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  • A Brief Guide to Charles Darwin

    by Cyril Aydon ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    Charles Darwin has become one of the most important men in history. The quiet, unsure polymath who avoided confrontation, ensconced in his family home at Down House in Kent, was also a revolutionary who developed his idea of Natural Selection in isolation. Cyril Aydon's short biography is considered one of the best introductions to the life and ideas of Darwin.With Darwin's legacy still in ... Read more

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  • Fundamentals of Polygraph Practice

    by Donald Krapohl, Pamela Shaw ...
    Though polygraph has been the mainstay for government and police departments since World War II, it has undergone substantial transformation in recent years. Fundamentals of Polygraph Practice bridges the gap between the outmoded practices and today's validated testing and analysis protocols. The goal of this reference is to thoroughly and concisely describe the evidence-based practices of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Murine Homeobox Gene Control of Embryonic Patterning and Organogenesis

    Edited by Thomas Lufkin ...
    Series Book 13 - Advances in Developmental Biology
    The first homeobox gene was molecular cloned nearly two decades ago, and since that time tremendous progress has been made in our understanding of the distribution of homeobox genes in the genomes of many animal species and the common functional role the encoded homeodomains play in cell-type specification, morphogenesis and development.The amino acid sequence of the homeodomain, as well as the ... Read more

    $211.49 USD

  • Life's Vital Link

    The astonishing role of the placenta

    by Y. W. Loke ...
    The development of the placenta was a pivotal event in evolution. Without it, we would still be laying eggs instead of giving birth to live offspring. It represents the critical link between the foetus and the mother, but its character is extraordinary -- it is, in effect, a foreign tissue that invades the mother's body. Compared to many other animals, the human placenta represents a particularly ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Quantitative Genetics And Its Connections With Big Data And Sequenced Genomes

    by Charles J Mode ...
    The book gives an overview of developments in Quantitative Genetics and variance component analysis in an era of Big Data and Sequenced Genomes. It provides a detailed description of a direct method of estimation that will be a useful means of extracting information from a large set of data that was inconceivable 10 to 20 years ago.The book is a combination of a history of variance component ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Molecular Photofitting

    Predicting Ancestry and Phenotype Using DNA

    by Tony Frudakis Ph.D. ...
    In the field of forensics, there is a critical need for genetic tests that can function in a predictive or inferential sense, before suspects have been identified, and/or for crimes for which DNA evidence exists but eye-witnesses do not. Molecular Photofitting fills this need by describing the process of generating a physical description of an individual from the analysis of his or her DNA. The ... Read more

    $104.39 USD