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More to Explore
Boon, Kevin. Human Genome Project: What Does Decoding DNA Mean for Us?
Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2003.
Brooks, Martin. Get a Grip on Genetics. New York: Time-Life Books, 1999.
Marshall, Elizabeth. The Human Genome Project: Cracking the Code Within Us. New
York: Scholastic Library, 2001.
Sloan, Christopher. The Human Story: Our Evolution from Prehistoric Ancestors to
Today. Washington, DC. National Geographic Society, 2004.
Toriello, James. Human Genome Project. Cherry Hill, NJ: Rosen Publishing, 2003.

References
These book and Internet sources are good general references on scientific discovery,
on the process of scientific investigation, on the history of scientific discoveries, and on important scientists.

Book Sources
Aaseng, Nathan. Twentieth-Century Inventors. New York: Facts on File, 1996.
Adler, Robert. Science Firsts, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
. Medical Firsts. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
Anton, Ted. Bold Science: Seven Scientists Who Are Changing Our World. New York:
W. H. Freeman, 2001.
Ashby, Ruth. Herstory. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.
Asimov, Isaac. Asimovs Chronology of Science and Discovery. New York: Harper &
Row, 1994.
Atkins, Peter, Galileos Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science. New York: Random
House, 2004.
Aubrey, John. Brief Lives, Volumes I and II. New York: Clarendon Press, 1998.
Badger, Mark. Two-Fisted Science. New York: G. T. Labs, 2001.
Berlinski, David. Newtons Gift. New York: Free Press, 2000.
Beshore, George. Science in Ancient China. New York: Franklin Watts, 1996.
Boorstin, Daniel. The Discoverers: A History of Mans Search to Know His World and
Himself. New York: Random House, 1997.
Brockman, John. Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist. New York:
Knopf, 2005.
Brodie, James. Created Equal: The Lives and Ideas of Black American Inventors. New
York: William Morrow, 1999.
Bryan, Jenny. The History of Health and Medicine. Florence, KY: Thompson Learning, 1999.
Bunch, Bryan. The History of Science and Technology. New York: Houghton Mifflin,
2004.
Chang, Laura, ed. Scientists at Work. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

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