She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

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Carl Zimmer She Has Her Mother s Laugh The Powers Perversions and Potential of Heredity Dutton (2018) Advance Praise for SHE HAS HER MOTHER’S LAUGH......Page 2 Other Books by Carl Zimmer......Page 6 Title Page......Page 8 Copyright......Page 9 Dedication......Page 10 Epigraph......Page 11 Contents......Page 12 Prologue......Page 14 PART I | A Stroke on the Cheek......Page 21 1. The Light Trifle of His Substance......Page 22 2. Traveling Across the Face of Time......Page 39 3. This Race Should End with Them......Page 76 4. Attagirl......Page 115 PART II | Wayward DNA......Page 143 5. An Evening’s Revelry......Page 144 6. The Sleeping Branches......Page 163 7. Individual Z......Page 188 8. Mongrels......Page 220 9. Nine Foot High Complete......Page 255 10. Ed and Fred......Page 289 PART III | The Pedigree Within......Page 322 11. Ex Ovo Omnia......Page 323 12. Witches’-Broom......Page 347 13. Chimeras......Page 369 PART IV | Other Channels......Page 401 14. You, My Friend, Are a Wonderland......Page 402 15. Flowering Monsters......Page 419 16. The Teachable Ape......Page 441 PART V | The Sun Chariot......Page 476 17. Yet Did He Greatly Dare......Page 477 18. Orphaned at Conception......Page 517 19. The Planet’s Heirs......Page 544 Glossary......Page 568 Notes......Page 571 Bibliography......Page 596 Acknowledgments......Page 649 Index......Page 652 About the Author......Page 681