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About The Gene

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Part 1: “The “Missing Science of Heredity”

Prologue-Part 1

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Part 2: “In the Sum of the Parts, There Are Only the Parts”

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Part 3: “The Dreams of Geneticists”

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Part 4: “The Proper Study of Mankind is Man”

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Part 5: “Through the Looking Glass”

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Part 6: “Post-Genome”

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