How new humans are made : cells and embryos, twins and chimeras, left and right, mind/self\soul, sex, and schizophrenia / Charles E. Boklage.

Author/creator Boklage, Charles E.
Format Book
Publication InfoSingapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2010.
Descriptionxv, 499 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Human, by [cellular & developmental] definition : emergence: of mind, of self, of soul, of person -- Genetic twin studies of schizophrenia : mind/brain asymmetry, multifactorial inheritance and epigenetic variation -- Reviewing/reciting the orthodoxy -- On the zygosity of twins -- Most twins are not twins -- Natural history and epidemiology of twins and twinning -- The chorion, the amnion, and the vertebrate body plan -- Each of us was once a single cell--or two : meiosis, gametogenesis, syngamy, embryogenesis -- Getting to the bottom of Creation's best trick : how human lives begin -- Timing is everything -- Twins and handedness and [illusions of] mirror-imaging -- Twins and malformations -- Twins and teeth and (the realities of) mirror-imaging -- The oddest of couples : boy-girl twins -- The Weinberg tautology and the lingering perfume of red herring -- Twinning and spontaneous chimerism -- Finding the right answer is much easier : after finding the right question -- Normal embryogenesis of left and right, and twins and chimeras -- The logic of DNA genotyping and forensic implications of chimerism.
Local noteLaupus-ECU author
Local noteLaupus- ECU author
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 421-429) and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- Charles E. Boklage, donor.
Acquisitions source Laupus- Evelyn McNeil, donor of 2nd copy.
LCCN 2009049302
ISBN9789812835130
ISBN981283513X

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Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks QM601 .B64 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold
Laupus Books - Stacks WQ 205 B686H 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold
Laupus History Reading Room - Does not circulate WQ 205 B686H 2010 ✔ Available