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Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew about Genes Paperback - 2002
by Sue Hubbell
In this timely and controversial work, Sue Hubbell contends that the concept of genetic engineering is anything but new, for humans have been tinkering with genetics for centuries. Focusing on four specific examples corn, silkworms, domestic cats, and apples she traces the histories of species that have been fundamentally altered over the centuries by the whims and needs of people.
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In this timely and controversial work, Sue Hubbell contends that the concept of genetic engineering is anything but new, for humans have been tinkering with genetics for centuries. Focusing on four specific examples corn, silkworms, domestic cats, and apples she traces the histories of species that have been fundamentally altered over the centuries by the whims and needs of people.
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WE, THE NAMERS, call our species Homo sapiens, the sapient, intelligent, wise sort of human.
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- Title Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew about Genes
- Author Sue Hubbell
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First printing
- Pages 176
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Boston, MA
- Date 2002-12-12
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780618257485 / 0618257489
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 5 x 7.9 x 0.6 in (12.70 x 20.07 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001024547
- Dewey Decimal Code 660.65
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2001. 2001 Hubbell, Sue SHRINKING THE CAT; GENETIC ENGINEERING BEFORE WE KNEW ABOUT GENES Boston: Mariner Books, c2001 first printing 175pp index, appendix 8vo As New trade paperbound copy.
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