She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (104 page)

and ooplasm transfers,
516

and totipotency,
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CARL ZIMMER writes the Matter column for the
New York Times
and has contributed to
The Atlantic, National Geographic, Time
, and
Scientific American
. He has won the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, among many other honors, for his journalism. Zimmer teaches science writing at Yale University. His previous books include
Parasite Rex, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
, and
Microcosm
.