Alain Prochiantz

A Monkey, Yourself

Based on recent data in the sequencing of genomes, an explanation of the genetic and cellular mechanisms at the origin of the unique position of our species in the animal world.

Alain Froment

Amazing Anatomy The Human Body and Evolution

A remarkable description of the human body, as seen through the history and evolution of the many living species that humans evolved from

Claude Humeau

Choosing Your Child’s Sex

Paul Rabinow

French DNA: Trouble in Purgatory

This book offers some surprising viewpoints: an anthropologist tells the story of the human genome sequencing project; a scholar of the humanities follows the crisis between a French laboratory, the Centre d’Étude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH), and a U.S. rival; an American intellectual describes the politics within the French scientific community. This exceptional survey of the most recent research trends and of the state of international competition in the field of genetic research gives us a notion of how our future health care is being prepared. Paul Rabinow teaches anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley.

Lluis Quintana-Murci

The Human People On the genetic traces of migrations, crossbreeding and adaptations

A fascinating overview of what we have learned from genomics, after two decades of amazing progress: an unprecedented leap forward in our knowledge of human diversity and its history.