Genome (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to change the title of Genome Saturday, November 7 2009.

Ulrich changed the title of Genome Friday, November 6 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Genome Saturday, August 1 2009.

• The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Arguably the most significant scientific discoveru of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. Questions that will affect the rest of your life. Genome offers extraordinary insight into the ramifications of this incredible breakthrough. By picking one newly discovered gene from each pair of chromosomes and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. From Huntington's disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Matt Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome. It will help you understand what this scientific milestone means for you, for your children, and for humankind.

keran wing edited the quotations of Genome Sunday, July 26 2009.

• Added a quotation: “We are apes, a group that almost went extinct fifteen million years ago in competition with the better-designed monkeys. We are primates, a group of mammals that almost went extinct forty-five million years ago with the better-designed rodents. We are synapsid tetrapods, a group of reptiles that almost went extinct 200 million years ago in competition with the better-designed dinosaurs. We are descended from limbed fishes, which almost went extinct 360 million years ago in competition with the better-designed ray-finned fishes. We are chordates, a phylum that survived the Cambrian era 500 million years ago by the skin of its teeth in competition with the brilliantly successful arthropods.”
• Added a quotation: “The idea of genes for behaviour is no more strange than the idea of genes for development. Both are mind-boggling, but nature has never found human incomprehension a reason for changing her methods.”

Shelfari edited the contributors of Genome Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Matt Ridley:

Shelfari edited the contributors of Genome Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Matt Ridley: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Genome Thursday, July 16 2009.

• In the beginning was the word.