Genome - Matt Ridley

SCID (severe combined immune Tjio, Joe-Hin, 24

deficiency), 249-50 Tooby, John, 102

scrapie, 272-4, 276—7, 279-82 Tredgold, Alfred, 294

Second World War (1939-45), 48, 79, 291 Trivers, Robert, 117-8, 215, 310

sexually antagonistic genes, 107-21 Trousseau, Armand, 67

sexual selection, 4 2 - 7 , 5 2 - 3 , 158-60 Tully, Tim, 224-5

Shannon, Claude, 15, 16 Turing, Alan, 15, 16

Shaw, George Bernard, 292 Turner's syndrome, 216-7

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 171

Shimojo, Shin, 312 uracil, 51

sickening mind, The (Paul Martin), 159 'ur-gene', 18, 196

sickle-cell anaemia, 141

Sigmundson, Keith, 218 Vallejo, Eugenia Martinez, 206

Skinner, B. F., 92 van Helmont, Jan Baptist, 15

Skuse, David, 216-7 Vavilov, Nikolay, 4 7 - 8

SLI (specific language impairment), Venter, Craig, 246

9 7 - 1 0 1 , 106 Verdun, Battle of (1916), 232

Sociobiology (E. O. Wilson), 306 Vogt, Oscar, 47

Southwood committee (1988), 282 von Tschermak, Erich, 44

Spanish Civil War (1936-9), 48

Spearman, Charles, 80 Walker, Alan, 33

Specified Bovine Offals Ban (1989), 282 water babies, The (Charles Kingsley), 29

Spencer, Herbert, 287-8 Watson, James, 13, 14, 48-50, 61, 196, SRY, 110-12 299, 305-6, 308

St Bartholomew's Hospital, 39 Webb, Beatrice, 292

St Hilaire, Etienne Geoffroy, 180 Webb, Sidney, 292

344 GENOME

Wederkind, Claus, 144-5 Wilson, E. O., 306, 310

Wedgwood, Josiah, 294-5, 297 Wilson, Vicky, 132

Weinberg, Robert, 237 Woese, Carl, 20

Wellcome Museum of Medicine, 273 Wohler, Friedrich, 15

Wellcome Trust 246 Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, 54-5

Wells, H. G., 292 Wood report (1929), 296

Werner's syndrome, 203

Wernicke's area, 97, 101 'xeno-transplants', 129

Wexler, Alice, 64 X-rays, 47, 176, 233, 294

Wexler, Milton, 57-8, 64 Xq28, 117, 118

Wexler, Nancy, 6 2 - 3 , 64, 264

Whorf, Benjamin, 92 Yerkes, Robert, 79

Wieschaus, Eric, 176 Young, J. Z., 27

Wilkins, Maurice, 13, 14 Young, Lady, 116

Williams, George, 201

William's syndrome, 97 Zigas, Vincent, 273

Document Outline

Front

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chromosome 1: Life

Chromosome 2: Species

Chromosome 3: History

Chromosome 4: Fate

Chromosome 5: Environment

Chromosome 6: Intelligence

Chromosome 7: Instinct

Chromosomes X and Y: Conflict

Chromosome 8: Self-interest

Chromosome 9: Disease

Chromosome 10: Stress

Chromosome 11: Personality

Chromosome 12: Self-assembly

Chromosome 13: Pre-history

Chromosome 14: Immortality

Chromosome 15: Sex

Chromosome 16: Memory

Chromosome 17: Death

Chromosome 18: Cures

Chromosome 19: Prevention

Chromosome 20: Politics

Chromosome 21: Eugenics

Chromosome 22: Free will

Bibliography and notes

Index