THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD OF THE HUMAN GENOME
Book ID/图书代码： 07204015B81960
English Summary/英文概要： Over the past 50 years we have deciphered the inner workings of the human genome. From the basic structure of DNA through to the complete sequence of the code, what first appeared to be simple is actually a complex and beautiful three-dimensional world that makes each of us who we are.
In The Mysterious World of the Human Genome acclaimed science writer Frank Ryan leads us through the most exciting scientific discoveries of the last 50 years revealing how this science has unlocked the cure of some genetic diseases, developed the use of DNA in forensic science and paternity testing, helped us trace our ancestors and provided a definitive map for the movement of humans out of Africa.
This scientific journey has had a profound impact on our understanding of the evolution of life itself, through the role of the most ancient of organisms in our basic biology all the way to the revelation that our most recent ancestor, Homo neanderthalensis, lives on in many of us.
In the ever more complicated world of the human genome, this is the first book to explain how the human genome actually works as a whole and how that knowledge will have a profound effect on our understanding of where we have come from and where we are likely to be going in the future.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在过去的50年中，我们已经成功解读了人类基因组的内部活动方式。从DNA的基本结构到完整的基因密码排序，这个曾经看似简单的世界实则是一个复杂而美丽的三维空间，它们的存在造就了今天的我们。
在《人类基因组的神秘世界》一书中，知名科学作家弗兰克•莱恩将带领我们去一探过去50年中那些令人兴奋不已的科学发现，它们将揭示基因科学是如何打开了治疗某些遗传疾病的大门，如何发展DNA并将其应用在法医学和亲子鉴定等领域，帮助我们寻根问祖并提供了非洲以外人类的运动轨迹图。
这一趟科学之旅对于我们理解生命的演化有着极其深远的影响，从基本生物体内最古老的细胞质所扮演的角色，到发现至今我们最近的祖先尼安德特人仍然存在于我们许多人当中。在日益复杂的人类基因组的世界中，本书是第一本对于人类基因作为一个整体的作用方式进行解释的书籍，而这一认知将对我们的起源和未来均有着深远的影响。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 弗兰克•莱恩是一名咨询医生，就职于谢菲尔德大学进化生物学研究中心。他还是一名国际知名的畅销书作家，著有纽约时报年度畅销书Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told，Darwin’s Blind Spot 以及 Virus X。他首创了具有跨时代意义的病毒性共生以及基因创造性的概念，并为现代人类对于基因组进化的理解做出了巨大贡献。他是英国皇家医师学会、皇家医学会以及伦敦林奈学会的成员。
Dr Frank Ryan is a consultant physician based in Sheffi eld, and an honorary Research Fellow in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Sheffi eld. He is also the internationally bestselling author of Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told, a New York Times Book of the Year, Darwin’s Blind Spot and Virus X. He pioneered the evolutionary concepts of viral symbiosis and genomic creativity and has contributed to the modern understanding of the evolution of the human genome. He is a Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians, the Royal Society of Medicine
and the Linnean Society of London.
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