Human Genetics

Written by experts and authorities in the field and professionally narrated for easy listening, this crash course is a valuable tool both during school and when preparing for the USMLE, or if you're simply interested in the subject. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical medical school human genetics course. Included are both capsule and detailed explanations of critical issues and topics you must know to master human genetics.

Could Neanderthals really have suffered from headaches? And did some of those ancient headaches eventually become ours? In Neanderthals Had Headaches: Evolution Meets Medicine, neurologist and headache specialist Lawrence Robbins, MD, takes us millions of years into our evolutionary past to explore an intriguing question: How much of what troubles the human body today began long before modern humans existed? The answer takes us into Neanderthal genetics, migraine, pain sensitivity, inflammation, skull anatomy, Chiari malformation, and the remarkable consequences of one of humanity’s ...

Survival of the fittest in space just became a lot more dangerous. Eleven colonies have gone dark across Federation space. Senior cadets are being deployed to a frontier that devours ships and returns only silence. Constantine Ramsey returns to a Space Fleet Academy transformed by war. He and his fellow second-years are being thrust into leadership roles for which they're not ready. The new curriculum sets aside theory for brutal new training in surviving first contact with alien predators and making terrible decisions where every choice comes with a body count. But when their latest ...

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez delivers an exhilarating sci-fi thriller exploring a potential future where CRISPR genetic editing allows the human species to control evolution itself. On a crowded train platform, Interpol agent Kenneth Durand feels the sting of a needle—and...

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races...

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to...

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to...

Humanity chose to suffer. The alternative was extinction. When genetic engineering nearly doomed the species, humanity made a desperate bargain: let the frontier do what nature intended. Harsh colony worlds. Brutal selection. Children dying on planets designed to test them. Two centuries later, the Mandate has kept humanity alive, but at a price no one is allowed to question. Cadet Constantine Ramsey questions it anyway. As a frontier colonist at Earth's Space Fleet Academy, Constantine keeps flinching at the hard calls, and finds himself being outperformed by the cadets who don't. Then ...

CRISPR Explained: Gene Editing, Genetic Medicine, Biotechnology, and the Future of Human Genetics is a practical introduction to how modern gene editing works and why it matters. It begins with the biological basics that make CRISPR possible: DNA, genes, chromosomes, cells, and the repair systems cells use when genetic material is damaged. From there, it shows how a bacterial immune defense was turned into a method for locating, cutting, and rewriting specific DNA sequences. The result is a grounded explanation of a technology that has moved gene editing from a narrow specialist task into a...

Perfect for an entry-level sci-fi reader and the ideal addition to a veteran fan’s collection, John Scalzi's Old Man’s War will take audiences on a heart-stopping adventure into the far corners of the universe. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave...

This is the history of humans from 6 million years ago until the Mesolithic Period, based entirely on evidence-based discoveries. From 1.8 million years ago, the focus shifts mainly to the Eurasian continent and the very specific adaptations our ancestors made there, evolving eventually into the modern Eurasians of today. From 120,000 years ago, a sharp light is shone on European-specific evolution, revealing how Europeans became the people they were finally to become. The narrative reveals how the varying environment — both climate and fauna in Eurasia — played a unique role in forcing...

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to...

Just over 125,000 years ago, humanity was going extinct until a dramatic shift occurred—Homo sapiens started tracking the tides in order to eat the nearby oysters. Before long, they’d pulled themselves back from the brink of extinction. What saved us during that period of endangerment? The...

A fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences. The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three...

The Nest; New York The 36th novel from acclaimed author Conrad Jones It’s 2025. Beneath the glittering towers of Manhattan, something is stirring in the dark. Homeless people are vanishing from the forgotten subway tunnels, their absence buried beneath bureaucracy and political indifference. Garbage trucks sit idle in picket lines. The nutrias, huge water rats—once bred for fur—are now being bred for something far worse. Carnage. Larger. Smarter. Organized. Hungry... As the city teeters on the edge of chaos, the truth begins to emerge: this is no infestation. This is an invasion. What...

A citywide power failure plunges millions into absolute darkness. But the grid didn’t fail. It was turned off. Dorian Pike, a former transit cop relegated to midnight infrastructure inspections, knows the subterranean labyrinth beneath the streets better than anyone. When a routine check leads to a mutilated body in a sealed service tunnel, he realizes something impossible is navigating the buried passages. As the lights go out above, a devastating predator breaks its subterranean containment. It is incredibly fast, shockingly intelligent, and relentlessly driven by a four-year-old trauma...

A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology.

2019 Best-Of Lists: 10 Best Science Books of the Year (Smithsonian Magazine) · Best Science Books of the Year (NPR's Science Friday) · Best Science and Technology Books from 2019” (Library Journal) An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial...

In Bellwether, the monsters were locked in the basement. In Garrick’s Hollow, they run the town. Forensic psychologist Dr. Maeve Alder thought she had survived the worst. Three weeks after a catastrophic mill fire exposed her family’s two-hundred-year-old genetic curse, Maeve travels deep into the unmapped mountains of West Virginia. Her goal: find the original source of the mutation and secure a permanent cure for her newly infected, nineteen-year-old nephew, Ferris. But the isolated settlement of Garrick’s Hollow isn't a ruin. It is a thriving, rigidly hierarchical community of apex...

A new entry in the wildly successful Children of Time series from award-winning master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky. After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a...