{"product_id":"lamarcks-revenge-peter-ward-9781632866158","title":"Lamarck's Revenge: How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEpigenetics upends natural selection and genetic mutation as the sole engines of evolution, and offers startling insights into our future heritable traits. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory was supplanted in the 1800s by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection through heritable genetic mutations. But natural selection could not adequately explain how rapidly species re-diversified and repopulated after mass extinctions. Now advances in the study of DNA and RNA have resurrected epigenetics, which can create radical physical and physiological changes in subsequent generations by the simple addition of a single small molecule, thus passing along a \u003ci\u003epropensity\u003c\/i\u003e for molecules to attach in the same places in the next generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEpigenetics is a complex process, but paleontologist and astrobiologist Peter Ward breaks it down for general readers, using the epigenetic paradigm to reexamine how the history of our species--from deep time to the outbreak of the Black Plague and into the present--has left its mark on our physiology, behavior, and intelligence. Most alarming are chapters about epigenetic changes we are undergoing now triggered by toxins, environmental pollutants, famine, poor nutrition, and overexposure to violence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLamarck's Revenge\u003c\/i\u003e is an eye-opening and provocative exploration of how traits are inherited, and how outside influences drive what we pass along to our progeny.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Ward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1632866153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632866158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/14\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/11\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2018 pg. 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2019","brand":"Peter Ward","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43939469164799,"sku":"9781632866158","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7ce84d3b-eee7-4579-a47c-901bd6b4b10b.jpg?v=1681441676","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lamarcks-revenge-peter-ward-9781632866158","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}