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Adam's curse : a future without men Bryan Sykes
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks QH 600.5 .S98 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sykes, Bryan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Y chromosome--Popular works.
- Y chromosome.
- Sex (Biology)--Popular works.
- Sex (Biology).
- Human evolution--Popular works.
- Human evolution.
- Physical Description:
- x, 318 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st American ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, c2004.
- Summary:
- Examines the history and future of the Y chromosome and maintains that because it is unable to exchange genetic material or repair itself, the day will come when it will cease to exist.
- Contents:
- The original Mr Sykes
- The lonely chromosome
- Ribbons of life
- The last embrace
- Sex and the single chromosome
- How to make a man
- Sex tips from fish
- Why bother with sex?
- The ideal republic
- The sense of sex
- The separation of the sexes
- A war on two fronts
- A rage to persuade
- Men of the world
- Blood of the Vikings
- The Y-chromosome of Somhairle Mor
- The great Khan
- The old school register
- The eleven daughters of Tracy Lewis
- The slaughter of the innocents
- The rise of the tyrant
- The sperm of Tara
- The gay gene revisited
- Gaia's revenge
- Lifting the curse.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Originally published: London : Bantam Press, 2003.
- ISBN:
- 0393058964 (hardcover)
- 9780393058963 (hardcover)
- OCLC:
- 54487538
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