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COPYRIGHT 2003 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
by Armand Marie Leroi Viking Press, 2003; $25.95
Don't let the bearded lady on the dust jacket fool you: this book is not a smarmy gallery of freaks and monsters. Armand Marie Leroi, a developmental biologist at Imperial College, London, has written an elegant study, filled with narratives from early medical literature and insights from the latest biomolecular research, on the subject of genetic variability and its manifestations in the developing human organism.
Not that the book isn't bulging with such oddities as flies born without eyes and babies born without irises--not to mention the person born with five nipples on one side and four on the other (a record). Leroi is also...
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