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Millennium No.6

On September 6, 2019September 7, 2019 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, series fiction, ThrillersLeave a comment

The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz (trans. George Goulding) 'She laid a hand on the Beretta in its holster and felt herself pitched into the same icy cold as when she threw the petrol-filled milk carton at her father.' This is David Lagercrantz's third excursion into the world of Larsson's zany heroine, Lisbeth …

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Why bother with sex?

On June 7, 2017 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Science2 Comments

Adam's Curse by Bryan Sykes 'The human Y-chromosome is a graveyard of rotting genes, whose corpses are still sufficiently similar to active counterparts on the X-chromosome to be recognisable by their DNA sequence, but whose festering remains contain the evidence of their own demise.' I seem to have a talent for picking up books with …

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Who Do You Think You Are?

On July 15, 2016 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, British History, Science9 Comments

Blood of the Isles by Bryan Sykes A Bookheathen Review I became fascinated by genetics back in my student days. The science was still at an early stage then. We knew about DNA but were still a long way from using it to solve crimes, and an even longer way from sequencing the human genome. …

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An Appetite For Wonder

On March 9, 2015 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Books, Science, Wonders, zoology1 Comment

The Making of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins               Professor Dawkins is one of the few dedicated scientists who can write about the most complex subject and make it both interesting and comprehensible. In An Appetite For Wonder, the first part of his intended two-part autobiography, we do not …

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It's all in the DNA!

On February 24, 2014 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Books, Life and the Universe, Science2 Comments

The Seven Daughters of Eve Bryan Sykes's book is one that bears reading a second and even a third time. It is the story of mitochondrial DNA. I first read it shortly after its publication in 2001. Science has moved on. There has been much new research and while scientists do not always agree on …

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