Published 2009
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“…Introduction -- Genetics -- The theory of evolution -- The laws of inheritance -- Genes and chromosomes -- Sex -- Genes, proteins and DNA -- The double helix -- Cracking the code of life -- Genetic engineering -- The human genome -- Lessons of the genome -- Genetic determinism -- Selfish genes -- Nature versus nurture -- Genetic diseases -- Gene hunting -- Cancer -- Behavioral genetics -- Genetic history -- Sex genes -- The battle of the sexes -- Genetic fingerprinting -- GM crops -- Evo-devo -- Stem cells -- Cloning -- Gene therapy -- Genetic testing -- Designer babies -- Junk DNA -- Copy number variation -- Epigenetics -- The RNA revolution -- Artificial life -- Physics -- Mach's principle -- Newton's laws of motion -- Kepler's laws -- Newton's law of gravitation -- Conservation of energy -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Newton's theory of color -- Huygens' principle -- Bragg's law -- Doppler effect -- Ohm's law -- Maxwell's equations -- Planck's law -- Photoelectric effect -- Schrödinger's wave equation -- Heisenberg's uncertainty principle -- Copenhagen interpretation -- Schrödinger's cat -- Rutherford's atom -- Antimatter -- Nuclear fission -- Nuclear fusion -- Standard model -- Special relativity -- General relativity -- Black holes -- Olbers' paradox -- Hubble's law -- The Big Bang -- Cosmic inflation -- Dark matter -- Cosmological constant -- Fermi paradox -- Anthropic principle -- Mathematics -- Pi -- Euler's number -- Infinity -- Imaginary numbers -- Primes -- Perfect numbers -- Fibonacci numbers -- Golden rectangles -- Pascal's triangle -- Algebra -- Logic -- Proof -- Sets -- Calculus -- Curves -- Topology -- Dimension -- Fractals -- Chaos -- The
parallel postulate -- Graphs -- Probability -- Distributions -- The normal curve -- Connecting data -- Groups -- Matrices -- Codes -- Latin squares -- The diet problem -- Game theory -- Fermat's last theorem -- The Riemann hypothesis -- Glossary -- Index.…”
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