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Record details
- ISBN: 0060872985
- ISBN: 0060872984
- ISBN: 0060873167 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780060873165 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780060872984
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Physical Description:
431 p. ; 24 cm. : ill.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2006.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-431). |
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Subject: | Medical ethics -- Fiction Chimpanzees -- Fiction Futurism -- Fiction Genetics -- Fiction Mutation (Biology) -- Fiction |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Gibsons Public Library | FIC CRIC (Text) | 30886000155271 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction-is it worse than the disease? We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell out eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes with their chromosomes... [Book Jacket].