The Human Genome Project: Cracking the Code Within Us

by Elizabeth L. Marshall

Book Overview

Describes the ten-year, multimillion dollar Human Genome Project and its process of gene mapping; includes concerns of critics of the project. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531158330
• ISBN13: 9780531158333
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

A good book to start understanding eugenics

Cracking the Code Within Us by Elizabeth L. Marshall, details of the Project are discussed in a clear and rational manner, devoid of the scare tactics by those who oppose genetics. She explains some of the genetic diseases that can be cured and points out that the Project could eventually lead to discovering the genetic errors responsible for more than 4,000 inherited diseases. She also assures us that intelligence is a combination of many complex genes, and we should not be looking for a cure for stupidity or a magic bullet for genius. Genetic intelligence can only be increased for the near future by good breeding. She does answer the question about the number of girl babies not born in China due to sex selection: an estimated 1.7 million a year in a population of 1 billion. This explains why Rothblatt didn't want to give an exact number. With a slightly over-representation of females born to males born naturally, there are already many more females and 1.7 million less in this large a population can only help to give women more value in the future.