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Ethics, sexual orientation, and choices about children
Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their child's sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions to learn (or change) their child's sexual orientation? Bioethicists have debated the moral implications of this still-hypothetical possibility for several decades. Some commentators fear that any scientific efforts to unde…
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- 9780262305822
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- 1 online resource (195 pages).
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Neurodevelopmental disorders
"Until recently, genetic, neuroanatomical, and psychological investigations on neurodevelopmental disorders were carried out independently. Now, tremendous advances across all disciplines have brought us toward a new scientific frontier: the integration of molecular genetics with a developmental cognitive neuroscience. The goal is to understand the basic mechanisms by which genes and environmen…
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- 9780262284653
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- 1 online resource (xii, 614 pages) :illustrations.
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Neurogenetic developmental disorders :variation of manifestation in childhood
A reference to guide clinicians, researchers, teachers, and parents in identifying a range of genetic disorders despite widely variable cognitive, behavioral, and physical effects.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279321
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 507 pages) :illustrations.
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The genetics of cognitive neuroscience / of Cognitive Neuroscience
A primer on understanding the influence of specific genetic variants on cognition, affective regulation, personality, and central nervous system disorders.
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- 1 online resource (xii, 297 pages) : illustrations.
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What's the use of race?: modern governance and the biology of difference
How race as a category-reinforced by new discoveries in genetics-is used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262266017
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- 1 online resource (viii, 303 pages) :illustrations
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Combinatorics of Genome Rearrangements
A comprehensive survey of a rapidly expanding field of combinatorial optimization, mathematically orientated but offering biological explanations when required, this volume offers the first comprehensive survey of a rapidly expanding application of combinatorial optimization.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258753
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- 1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) :illustrations.
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An introduction to genetic algorithms
"A Bradford book."Genetic algorithms have been used in science and engineering as adaptive algorithms for solving practical problems and as computational models of natural evolutionary systems. This brief, accessible introduction describes some of the most interesting research in the field and also enables readers to implement and experiment with genetic algorithms on their own. It focuses in d…
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- 9780262280013
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- 1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) :illustrations.
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Reframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age
Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure of DNA made it possible to represent the basic matter of life with permutations and combinations of four letters of the alphabet, A, T, C, and G. Since then, the biological and legal conceptions of life have been in constant, mutually constitutive interplay -…
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- 9780262298667
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- 1 online resource (x, 310 pages).
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The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited
In 1995, John Maynard Smith and E?ors Szathm?ary published their influential book 'The Major Transitions in Evolution'. In this volume, scholars reconsider and extend the earlier book's themes in light of recent developments in evolutionary biology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295703
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- 1 online resource (x, 319 pages) :illustrations.
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What Genes Can't Do
The idea of the gene has been a central organizing theme in contemporary biology; and the Human Genome Project and biotechnological advances have put the gene in the media spotlight. In this book Lenny Moss reconstructs the history of the gene concept, placing it in the context of the perennial interplay between theories of preformationism and theories of epigenesis. He finds that there are not…
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- 9780262280273
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- 1 online resource (xx, 228 pages) :illustrations.
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