A powerful challenge to the increasingly orthodox claim that all of human existence is controlled by our DNA. Lewontin questions the assumptions that have been made based on this belief and its influence on the direction of biological research, in particular the Human Genome Project, which seeks to determine the complete DNA sequence that makes up human genes. 'The most subversive book to be published in English this year' - Independent
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Professor R C Lewontin is a leading geneticist. A frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books, he also holds the Alexander Gassiz chair in zoology at Harvard University.
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