Volume 89 | Number 1 | January-February 2001
Fiona Cowie
A review of Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food, by Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan.
John Alcock
A review of Dear Mr Darwin: Letters on the Evolution of Life and Human Nature, by Gabriel Dover.
Evelyn Sander
A review of Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post–World War II America, by Margaret A. M. Murray.
Michael Shermer
A review of Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley.
Franklin Zweig
A review of From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice, by Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wikler.
Peter Follett
A review of Pandora's Picnic Basket: The Potential and Hazards of Genetically Modified Foods, by Alan McHughen.
Tim Beardsley
A review of From Alchemy to IPO: The Business of Biotechnology, by Cynthia Robbins-Roth.
Theodore Schurr
A review of Genes, Peoples, and Languages, by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza. Translated by Mark Seielstad.
M. Ilyas Kamboh
A review of Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer's Disease, by Rudolph E. Tanzi and Ann B. Parson.
Total Records : 24
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