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Journal of Heredity 2004:95(1)
© 2004 The American Genetic Association 95:89-90

Book Review

Tears of the Cheetah

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Stephen J. O'Brien.

St. Martin's Press, New York. 2003.

This fascinating tale recounts much of Stephen O'Brien's numerous professional exploits with animals and viruses, but more importantly, it deals with his efforts to understand the adaptation to pathogens as it may be deciphered from exploring the current genomes of man and animals. The book is exceptionally easy to read and Ernst Mayr, who wrote the Foreword, is absolutely right when he said "... that one can hardly lay this book down."

It is hard to decide whether the book was written for semiprofessionals or for the general public. Although there is a fair amount of technical material, such as names of specific genes, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

K. Benirschke

Department of Pathology UCSD Medical Center San Diego, CA 92103


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