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Science 23 November 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5547, p. 1659
DOI: 10.1126/science.1066874
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GENETICS:
Also Sprach Homo mutans

A review by Norman A. Johnson

Shrinking the Cat Genetic Engineering Before We Knew About Genes
Sue Hubbell
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2001. 191 pp. $25. ISBN 0-618-04027-7.

To provide a background for considering possible benefits and drawbacks of genetic engineering, Hubbell discusses the successes and failures from centuries of selective breeding and tinkering with corn, silkworms, cats, and apples.
The author is in the Department of Entomology, 102 Fernald Building, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. E-mail: njohnson{at}ent.umass.edu

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