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Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as chromosomes)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,743 ratings — published 1999
The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as chromosomes)
avg rating 3.77 — 6,139 ratings — published 2017
Entanglement (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as chromosomes)
avg rating 3.33 — 714 ratings — published 2012
“Throughout this book I will refer to both sex and gender. By 'sex', I mean the biological characteristics that determine whether an individual is male or female , XX and XY. By 'gender', I mean the social meanings we impose upon those biological facts. The way women are treated because they are perceived to be female. One is man-made, but both are real and both have significant consequences for women as they navigate this world constructed on male data. But although I talk about both sex and gender throughout, I use 'Gender Data Gap' as an overarching term. Because sex is not the reason women are excluded from data - gender is”
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
“Biologically speaking, the character of an animal depends on its chromosomal content, not on its size, shape, age, or stage of development. Any organism with the chromosomes and genes proper to a human being can be nothing less than a human being. Human life exists only in human beings, and all human beings are persons.”
― The Death Peddlers War on the Unborn
― The Death Peddlers War on the Unborn