Gene: An Intimate History - Softcover

Mukherjee, Siddhartha

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9781501170713: Gene: An Intimate History

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501170716 ISBN 13: 9781501170713

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2017

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The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant and illuminating as his biography of cancer. Interweaving science, social history and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee tells the story of our quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates and choices.

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"This is perhaps the greatest detective story ever told a millennia-long search, led by a thousand explorers, from Aristotle to Mendel to Francis Collins, for the question marks at the center of every living cell. Like "The Emperor of All Maladies, The Gene "is prodigious, sweeping, and ultimately transcendent. If you re interested in what it means to be human, today and in the tomorrows to come, you must read this book."--Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See"

""The Gene" is a magnificent synthesis of the science of life, and forces all to confront the essence of that science as well as the ethical and philosophical challenges to our conception of what constitutes being human."--Paul Berg, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Book Description:

The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee.

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