James T. Bradley is the former director of the Human Odyssey Program and W. Kelly Mosley Professor of Science and Humanities emeritus at Auburn University where he taught in the Department of Biological Sciences. Winner of the 2002 Academic Freedom Award of the Auburn Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Bradley is author or coauthor of numerous short papers published in journals such as Nature, Zygon, Journal of Experimental Zoology , and Cell and Tissue Research . In addition, he has published a laboratory manual in cell biology and edited the first two volumes of The Human Odyssey: Readings from Original Sources .
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--James W. Wagner, president of Emory University and vice-chair of
the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
"An exceptionally stimulating work on human genomics, especially
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biodiversity, human genomics, and genomic medicine."
--Alondra Oubr�, medical anthropologist and author of Instinct and
Revelation: Reflections on the Origins of Numinous Perception
"Essential. All levels/libraries. . . . This is the perfect book
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Bradley speaks with a specialist's authority, a generalist's open
mind, and a humanist's sensitivity."--CHOICE
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