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Lamarck's revenge : how epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of evolution's past and present (Record no. 59648)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2018003831
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781632866158
Qualifying information (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 1632866153
Qualifying information (hardcover)
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Language of cataloging eng
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Authentication code pcc
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QH450
Item number .W37 2018
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 572.8/65
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Ward, Peter D.
Fuller form of name (Peter Douglas),
Dates associated with a name 1949-
Relator term author.
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245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Lamarck's revenge : how epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of evolution's past and present
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.,
Date of publication, distribution, etc [2018]
Date of publication, distribution, etc �2018
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 273 pages ;
Dimensions 25 cm
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-260) and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory was supplanted in the 1800s by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection through heritable genetic mutations. But natural selection could not adequately explain how rapidly species re-diversified and repopulated after mass extinctions. Now advances in the study of DNA and RNA have resurrected epigenetics, which can create radical physical and physiological changes in subsequent generations by the simple addition of a single small molecule, thus passing along a propensity for molecules to attach in the same places in the next generation. Epigenetics is a complex process, but paleontologist and astrobiologist Peter Ward breaks it down for general readers, using the epigenetic paradigm to reexamine how the history of our species--from deep time to the outbreak of the Black Plague and into the present--has left its mark on our physiology, behavior, and intelligence. Most alarming are chapters about epigenetic changes we are undergoing now triggered by toxins, environmental pollutants, famine, poor nutrition, and overexposure to violence. Lamarck's Revenge is an eye-opening and provocative exploration of how traits are inherited, and how outside influences drive what we pass along to our progeny."--Page [2] of cover.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Epigenetics
General subdivision History
Form subdivision Popular works.
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  Nonfiction Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 572.8 WAR 34480000568729 NF