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Sexual Selection: A Very Short Introduction
Marlene Zuk and Leigh W. Simmons
Sexual Selection: A Very Short Introduction introduces the astounding array of behaviours and decorative traits in the animal world used for competing for mates, and considers ...
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Heredity: A Very Short Introduction
John Waller
The idea of heredity—that qualities of body and mind are somehow inherited from one’s parents—has profoundly shaped many aspects of the human experience: from our attempts to understand ...
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8. Ñañuu María Gets Hit by Lightning: People and Their Selves
John Monaghan and Peter Just
in Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction
‘Ñañuu María Gets Hit by Lightning’ discusses the concepts of personhood and self. Ideas about the world and the people in it that seem obvious and ordinary to the members of a culture are ...
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3. Phylogenetic linguistics: establishing linguistic relationships
Stephen R. Anderson
in Languages: A Very Short Introduction
‘Phylogenetic linguistics: establishing linguistic relationships ’ considers the historical dimension of language identity, not only in terms of the relationship among languages, but also ...
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5. Genes of small effect
Jonathan Slack
in Genes: A Very Short Introduction
‘Genes of small effect’ considers unidentified genes whose variants collectively affect some characteristic of interest. Many aspects of living organisms depend not on the action of a few ...
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1. Genes before 1944
Jonathan Slack
in Genes: A Very Short Introduction
‘Genes before 1944’ outlines the development in our understanding of genes based on Gregor Mendel’s work carried out in 1866 on hereditary factors, to Oswald Avery’s paper on the chemical ...
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Genes: A Very Short Introduction
Jonathan Slack
What are genes? What do they say about us? Genes: A Very Short Introduction explores the concept of the gene and looks at the discovery, nature, and role of genes in both evolution and ...
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