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Adam's Curse

Paperback • 2005 • English

Adam's Curse

By Bryan Sykes

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By the nationally best-selling author of "The Seven Daughters of Eve," "Adam's Curse" investigates the ultimate evolutionary crisis: a man-free future. How is it possible that the Y chromosome, which separated the sexes and allowed humans to rise to the apex of the animal kingdom, also threatens to destroy sexual reproduction altogether? Bryan Sykes confronts recent advances in evolutionary theory to find the answers to the questions that inexorably follow: Is there a genetic cause for men's gre...Show more

Biology, life sciences

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ISBN

9780393326802

Publisher

WW Norton Co

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Adam's Curse

Format

Paperback

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