The Gene
Subtitle: An Intimate History
Edition: First Scribner trade paperback edition (1)
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2017-05
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 594
ISBN-13: 9781476733524
Copyright date: 2016
Description: Brilliantly interweaving science, social history, and the story of his own family, Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee explains the science of genetics and confronts the extra- ordinary influence of heredity on our lives. With superb prose and an instinct for the dramatic scene, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson, and Franklin, and all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first-century innovators who are mapping the human genome. The Gene is also, crucially, a preparation for the moral complexity intro- duced by our ability to create or "write" a genome, and thus determine human fate. Riveting, majestic, revelatory, it is a must-read for everyone concerned about the definition and future of humanity.
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Notes: US/CAN