The Deeper Genome: Why there is more to the human genome than meets the eye

As the Human Genome Project completed its mapping of the entire human genome, hopes ran high that we would rapidly be able to use our knowledge of human genes to tackle many inherited diseases, and understand what makes us unique among animals. But things didn't turn out that way ... but the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: John Parrington
Format: Printed Book
Published: United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2015
Subjects:
Human genome. Genomes. DNA.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : how the genome lost its junk
  • The inheritors
  • Life as a code
  • Switches and signals
  • The spacious genome
  • RNA out of the shadows
  • It's a jungle in there!
  • The genome in 3D
  • The jumping genes
  • The marks of Lamarck
  • Code, non-code, garbage, and junk
  • Genes and disease
  • What makes us human?
  • The genome that became conscious
  • Conclusion : the case for complexity.

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