Next

A Novel

Paperback, 629 pages

English language

Published Dec. 24, 2006 by HarperLuxe.

ISBN:
978-0-06-087303-5
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OCLC Number:
732770826

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Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles an adult human being? And should that worry us?

We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it’s possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies.

We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes...

Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. …

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Subjects

  • Genetics -- Fiction
  • Large type books