Epigenetics: How Environment Shapes Our Genes

Author/Contributor(s):	Francis, Richard C
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	06/04/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Epigenetic means "on the gene," and the term refers to the recent discovery that stress in the environment can impact an individual's physiology so deeply that those biological scars are actually inherited by the next several generations. "Epigenetics" is the first book for general readers on this fascinating and important topic.