Gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it--a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, Echoing Homer's cyclops, ar...Gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it--a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, Echoing Homer's cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the burmese royal court for four generations and gave darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity.