(Set) Epigenetics: How Environment Changes Your Biology & What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution

How has cutting-edge science changed our understanding of life? Discover the answers in this two-course set that includes Epigenetics: How Environment Changes Your Biology and What Darwin Didn’t Know: The Modern Science of Evolution. In this first course, join an expert in epigenetics for a journey inside your genome to discover the molecules that are switching your genes on and off—and the deep chemistry of life. And in the second, explore the ways evolution took off as a rigorous and powerfully predictive science, accumulating steady improvements to Darwin's original ideas.

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This is the e Book version of the printed book.This is the first comprehensive, authoritative, and easy-to-understand introduction to modern epigenetics. Authored by two active researchers in the field, it introduces key concepts one step at a time, enabling students at all levels to benefit from it. The authors begin by presenting a historical overview that places epigenetics in context, and makes it clear that the field is not (as some presume) completely new.

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Epigenetics: How Environment Changes Your Biology

Taught by physician-scientist Dr. Charlotte Mykura, this course introduces the science of epigenetics, which goes together with genetics to explain physiology, heritability, disease, and every other aspect of living cells. You learn how the double helix of DNA is transformed by a host of molecules that constitute the epigenome and which implement the genetic code by switching genes on and off.

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(Set) Synthetic Biology: Life’s Extraordinary New Worlds & Unlocking the Hidden History of DNA

Embark on an exploration of new scientific frontiers with this pairing of Synthetic Biology: Life’s Extraordinary New Worlds and Unlocking the Hidden History of DNA. First, learn how synthetic biology gives scientists the power to redesign nature and even create life. Then, discover why DNA not only holds secrets about our ancestors and our development over time, but it also sheds light on the present workings of the trillions of cells inside our bodies.

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Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy

What makes evolution such a profoundly provocative concept, so convincing to most scientists, yet so socially and politically divisive? The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy is an examination of the varied elements that so often make this science the object of strong sentiments and heated debate. Professor Edward J. Larson leads you through the "evolution" of evolution, with an eye toward enhancing your understanding of the development of the theory itself and the roots of the controversies that surround it. In these lectures you will: explore pre-Darwinian theories on the origins of life; examine the history of evolutionary science after Darwin; trace the history of objections to evolution; and much more.

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