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Some of the most profound secrets about what it means to be human are now being revealed, thanks to the amazing tools of biotechnology. The Human Genome Project, completed in 2003, opened the book on the genetic instructions that go into making a human. Now other species are being studied at the same level of detail, providing astonishing insights into the whole range of life on Earth.
Armed with these and other findings, scientists are beginning to address age-old mysteries, including these:
What is the difference between living organisms and nonliving things?
How does DNA instruct a single-cell embryo to create a body with a brain that produces a self-conscious mind?
What makes us human? Our minds, genes, appearance, or something else?
Is the human species at the end of an evolutionary line, or will it evolve into something entirely different?
In 24 thought-provoking lectures designed for nonscientists, The Science of Self explores these and many other questions in today's exciting field of genomics, the study of the vast storehouse of information contained within chromosomes.
Course Lecture Titles:
1. A Scientific Approach to Understanding Life
2. What Is Life?
3. What Is a Human Being?
4. Mendel's Theory of Genetic Inheritance
5. Why Identical Twins Are Not Identical
6. Chromosomes and Sexual Reproduction
7. Digital DNA and the Secret of Inheritance
8. From Genes to Cells
9. Tools of Genomics and Biotechnology
10. The Landscape of the Human Genome
11. Why Your Liver Is Not Your Heart
12. Natural Selection and Species Evolution
13. Individual Human Variation
14. Evolution of the Human Genome
15. Hidden Whispers from Past Lives
16. Family Pedigrees and Simple Disease Traits
17. Global Human Genetics
18. Genetic Divergence in Human Populations
19. The Genetic Foundation for Human Morality
20. A Recipe for Constructing the Brain
21. Brain Chemistry and Personality
22. The Genetics of Mental Disease
23. The Paradigm-Shifting Impact of Genetics
24. The Future of the Human Species