Adam's curse : a future without men /

"Bryan Sykes, already one of the world's preeminent geneticists, established himself as one of science's most fascinating explicators of the mysteries of human origins. Now, in Adam's Curse, he returns with an equally spellbinding volume that examines the perilous future of the Y...

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Main Author: Sykes, Bryan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Norton & Co., c2004.
Edition:1st American ed.
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Original Mr Sykes
  • 2. The Lonely Chromosome
  • 3. Ribbons of Life
  • 4. The Last Embrace
  • 5. Sex and the Single Chromosome
  • 6. How to Make a Man
  • 7. Sex Tips from Fish
  • 8. Why Bother with Sex?
  • 9. The Ideal Republic
  • 10. The Sense of Sex
  • 11. The Separation of the Sexes
  • 12. A War on Two Fronts
  • 13. A Rage to Persuade
  • 14. Men of the World
  • 15. Blood of the Vikings
  • 16. The Y-chromosome of Somhairle Mor
  • 17. The Great Khan
  • 18. The Old School Register
  • 19. The Eleven Daughters of Tracy Lewis
  • 20. The Slaughter of the Innocents
  • 21. The Rise of the Tyrant
  • 22. The Sperm of Tara
  • 23. The Gay Gene Revisited
  • 24. Gaia's Revenge
  • 25. Lifting the Curse.