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An eminent geneticist, veteran author, OMMG Series Editor, and noted archivist, Peter Harper presents a lively account of how our ideas and knowledge about human genetics have developed over the past century from the perspective of someone inside the field with a deep interest in its historical aspects. Dr. Harper has researched the history of genetics and has had personal contact with a host of key figures whose memories and experiences extend back 50 years, and he has interviewed and recorded conversations with many of these important geneticists. Thus, rather than being a conventional history, this book transmits the essence of the ideas and the people involved and how they interacted in advancing- and sometimes retarding- the field. From the origins of human genetics; through the contributions of Darwin, Mendel, and other giants; the identification of the first human chromosome abnormalities; and up through the completion of the Human Genome project, this Short History is written in the author's characteristic clear and personal style, which appeals to geneticists and to all those interested in the story of human genetics.

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'*****' Dr Alix Darden, The Citadel Peter Harper has written a defining and thoroughly readable account of the development of the subject that most readers would acknowledge to be the most exciting and innovative in modern science and medicine...compiled with clarity and style [and] a major work of great scholarship, it provides the reader wtih a unique insight into the history of the subject...[a] tour de force... Human Genetics

"""This 'short' history has been compiled with great clarity and style. It constitutes a major work of great scholarship and provides the reader and the greater genetics community with a unique insight into the history of their subject. The author is to be congratulated for collating and documenting so much crucial information...before it becomes lost in the mists of time. If future generations can learn from the mistakes of the past, most notably those relating to eugenics and mischievous political interference, then this tour de force will have done us all a great service."" – Human Genetics  "

'*****' Dr Alix Darden, The Citadel Peter Harper has written a defining and thoroughly readable account of the development of the subject that most readers would acknowledge to be the most exciting and innovative in modern science and medicine...compiled with clarity and style [and] a major work of great scholarship, it provides the reader wtih a unique insight into the history of the subject...[a] tour de force... Human Genetics

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