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Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden
tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their
sex had at last been dispensed with. Dolly the Sheep - conceived
without male assistance - had arrived. Her birth reminded at least
half the population of how precarious man''s position may be. What
is the point of being a man? For a brief and essential instant he
is a donor of DNA; but outside that glorious moment his role is
hard to understand. This book is about science not society; about
maleness not manhood. The condition is, in the end, a matter of
biology, whatever limits that science may have in explaining the
human condition. Today''s advances in medicine and in genetics mean
at last we understand why men exist and why they are so frequent.
We understand from hormones to hydraulics how man''s machinery
works, why he dies so young and how his brain differs from that of
the rest of mankind.
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Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College,
London and has worked at universities in the USA, Australia and
Africa. He gave the Reith Lectures in 1991 and presented a BBC TV
series on human genetics and evolution in 1996. He is a columnist
for the Daily Telegraph.
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