heredity

Challenges common beliefs that human potential is largely determined by genetics and other biological factors, drawing on a variety of scientific disciplines to explain how to tap innate abilities that have been influenced by environmental factors.

Explores the way we inherit the color of our hair through our genes, and what hair colors are most and least common.

Explains the elements of genetics that determine one's eye color and discusses how eye color can be handed down among families. Includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

Provides information about the field of genetics and DNA and discusses its importance to human life, animal breeding, and agriculture. Focuses on the theories and observations of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel and includes color photos, illustrations, a glossary, and an index.

Offers a comprehensive, yet easy-to-follow, overview of genetics, explaining how genes are passed on from one generation to the next, the variety genes create, and the process of evolution.

Describes how certain organisms adapt to their environment, ways to protect the environment, genetic engineering, and biotechnology.

The traits we inherit from our parents and pass on to our offspring are encoded in our genes and DNA and reveal much about both our origins and our future. This volume examines the fascinating biology behind genetics and genetic disorders.

Explains how plants and animals with fast breeding cycles, such as guinea pigs and fruit flies, have been used by biologists throughout history to study evolution and genetics, exploring how they have helped prove and disprove specific theories related to evolution and the development of life.

Examines studies of identical twins who have lived entirely separate lives, and discusses what that research reveals about the relative contributions of heredity and environment to the makeup of individual human natures.