Comments on: Book review – The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance

By: Book review – Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:58:08 +0000

[…] while he covers culture, other mechanisms by which the environment can influence heredity, such as epigenetics, are omitted from his […]

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By: Book review – Biocivilisations: A New Look at the Science of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 31 May 2024 11:43:37 +0000

[…] of ideas, no talk of extended heredity, no talk of evolution evolving, and no popular works on epigenetics. As if two of his intellectual heroes Stephen Jay Gould (he of punctuated equilibrium) and E.O. […]

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By: Book review – On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 07:46:47 +0000

[…] Helix; and the discovery of how DNA codes for amino acids. It touches on horizontal gene transfer, epigenetics, and twin studies and the discovery of polygenic traits. All important topics for sure, but they […]

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By: Book review – Life Changing: How Humans Are Altering Life on Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 10:18:18 +0000

[…] a small but not insignificant fraction. With time, further differences accrue due to mutations and epigenetics (processes that change the way DNA is expressed without changing the DNA sequence). “We are […]

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By: Book review – The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries: The Evidence and the People Who Found It | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:42:41 +0000

[…] speciation and biodiversity, the formation of higher taxa, or the difficulty with species concepts. Epigenetics is mentioned, but not by name. The textbook example of the peppered moth is included, but there is […]

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By: Book review – Science in Black and White: How Biology and Environment Shape Our Racial Divide | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 14:59:34 +0000

[…] genomes for numerous such mutations. But also the concepts of gene × environment interactions, epigenetics (inheritance through other mechanisms than DNA), and biological plasticity. And, finally, a primer […]

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By: Book review – Hacking the Code of Life: How Gene Editing Will Rewrite Our Futures | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 09 May 2019 11:57:28 +0000

[…] details are concerned. Carey has previously written very accessible books on epigenetics (The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease a…) and junk DNA (Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome) that were quite chunky […]

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By: Book review – Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:24:49 +0000

[…] histone modification, and RNA inheritance a step up from Carey’s previously reviewed book The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease a…. There is the idea that learning and culture are a form of heredity (often put forward to explain […]

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By: Book review – The Enlightened Gene: Biology, Buddhism, and the Convergence That Explains the World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 10:09:27 +0000

[…] or activity rather than gene sequence (see Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes, The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease a…, and Lamarck’s Revenge: How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of […]

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By: Book review – She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 13 Jan 2019 10:07:36 +0000

[…] epigenetics (heritable changes due to changes in gene activity rather than sequence, see these three books for more), or the notion that culture is a form of heritability to pass on knowledge (see […]

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