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02956aam a22004218i 4500 001 06D303AA253111EE91433F782CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230718010455 008 221019s2023 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022049294 020 $a 1541603273 020 $a 9781541603271 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a QH581.2 $b .M383 2023 082 00 $2 23/eng/20230418 100 1 $a Martinez Arias, Alfonso, $d 1955- $e author. 245 14 $a THE MASTER BUILDER : $b HOW THE NEW SCIENCE OF THE CELL IS REWRITING THE STORY OF LIFE / $c Alfonso Martinez Arias. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2308 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Basic Books/Hachette Book Group, $c 2023. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2023/08/01 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "What defines who we are? For decades, the biological answer has been our genes. In The Master Builder, leading biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias breaks with decades of scientific and popular tradition to make a bold argument: what defines us is our cells.Drawing on new research from his lab and others, Martinez Arias reveals that we are composed of a thrillingly complex, constantly rearranging symphony of cells that know how to count, feel, and ultimately give form to our bodies. While DNA is important,Richard Dawkins's vision of the selfish gene that controls everything is not a good description of how biology actually works. As Martinez Arias shows, nothing in your genes explains why your heart is on the left side of your body, why you have five fingers and not ten, or why genetically identical twins have different sets of fingerprints and why it's possible for a mother to apparently share no DNA with the children to whom she gave birth! At the heart of it all is not simply gee-whiz science, but a powerful new conception of the essence of life. Our identities are shaped not simply by our genes, but by the interconnections between all our cells, working as a sort of symphony-cooperative, and creating something greater than its parts could on their own-and the unbroken lineage of cells that connects us to the first fertilized egg from which we developed-and in turn, back through the billions of years of our planet's history, to the very first cell in the history of all life on Earth"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Cells. $9 65652 650 0 $a Life (Biology) $9 65493 941 $a 10 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509013735.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314025832.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125012021.0 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206013119.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20231005010903.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20231003012037.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230913010359.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20230902013021.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20230816010120.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20230718013206.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=06D303AA253111EE91433F782CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search