The Genetic Gods : : Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs / / John C. Avise.
They mastermind our lives, shaping our features, our health, and our behavior, even in the sacrosanct realms of love and sex, religion, aging, and death. Yet we are the ones who house, perpetuate, and give the promise of immortality to these biological agents, our genetic gods. The link between gene...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- One. The Doctrines of Biological Science
- Two. Geneses
- Three. Genetic Maladies
- Four. Genetic Beneficence
- Five. Strategies of the Genes
- Six. Genetic Sovereignty
- Seven. New Lords of Our Genes?
- Eight. Meaning
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Glossary
- Index