How new humans are made cells and embryos, twins and chimeras, left and right, mind/self\soul, sex, and schizophrenia

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Boklage, Charles E., autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific [2010]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Human, by [cellular & developmental] definition : emergence: of mind, of self, of soul, of person
  • Genetic twin studies of schizophrenia : mind/brain asymmetry, multifactorial inheritance and epigenetic variation
  • Reviewing/reciting the orthodoxy
  • On the zygosity of twins
  • Most twins are not twins
  • Natural history and epidemiology of twins and twinning
  • The chorion, the amnion, and the vertebrate body plan
  • Each of us was once a single cell--or two : meiosis, gametogenesis, syngamy, embryogenesis
  • Getting to the bottom of Creation's best trick : how human lives begin
  • Timing is everything
  • Twins and handedness and [illusions of] mirror-imaging
  • Twins and malformations
  • Twins and teeth and (the realities of) mirror-imaging
  • The oddest of couples : boy-girl twins
  • The Weinberg tautology and the lingering perfume of red herring
  • Twinning and spontaneous chimerism
  • Finding the right answer is much easier : after finding the right question
  • Normal embryogenesis of left and right, and twins and chimeras
  • The logic of DNA genotyping and forensic implications of chimerism