Turi King: The Secrets of our DNA, Gebunden

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The Secrets of our DNA is a book of extraordinary stories - mysteries that were solved using the power of DNA.

DNA has become the key to unlocking crime and immigration cases, it is essential to our food safety, to the protection of threatened wildlife, and to resolving questions of history and archaeology, ancestry and even, for some, identity. Now the UK's preeminent authority on DNA and genetic research, Turi King takes us from mistaken dinosaur DNA to the O. J. Simpson trial, from Dolly the sheep to Angelina Jolie's BRCA1 gene, from epigenetics to eugenics and what we can learn from the study of Hitler's DNA.

Fascinating, compassionate and entirely captivating*, The Secrets of our DNA* shows us how we are all interconnected and why we must all benefit from this exciting and rapidly evolving science. It also reminds us that while our DNA can yield information about genetic predisposition to disease and other conditions, it need not be our destiny. We should all be a part of the discussion as to how incredible new genetic discoveries are utilised for the benefit of all life on earth.