Adam's curse : a future without men / Bryan Sykes.

  • Sykes, Bryan.
Date:
[2005], ©2005
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

New York : W.W. Norton, [2005], ©2005.

Physical description

x, 320 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Contributors

Notes

Includes index.
Originally published: London : Bantam Press, 2003.
First published as a Norton paperback 2005.

Contents

The original Mr Sykes -- The lonely chromosome -- Ribbons of life -- The last embrace -- Sex and the single chromosome -- How to make a man -- Sex tips from fish -- Why bother with sex? -- The ideal republic -- The sense of sex -- The separation of the sexes -- A war on two fronts -- A rage to persuade -- Men of the world -- Blood of the Vikings -- The Y-chromosome of Somhairle Mor -- The great Khan -- The old school register -- The eleven daughters of Tracy Lewis -- The slaughter of the innocents -- The rise of the tyrant -- The sperm of Tara -- The gay gene revisited -- Gaia's revenge -- Lifting the curse.

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    Medical Collection
    QH600.5 2004S98a
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ISBN

  • 0393326802