The author extrapolates well and helps to give broader explanations that this non-scientist appreciated. This is an engaging and humane treatment of the subject, which by its nature can be incredibly specific and detailed. Who regarded me with a (brief) look of awe I haven’t seen for 15 years. "This book has allowed me to hold forth for a good 10 minutes on all the issues surrounding the recent gene editing discussions in the news to my husband. Majestic in its ambition, and unflinching in its honesty, The Gene gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity – and a vision of both humanity’s past and future. This is a story driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds – from Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin, and the thousands of scientists still working to understand the code of codes. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, temperament, choice and free will. It intersects with Darwin’s theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where a monk stumbles on the idea of a ‘unit of heredity’. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. By Siddhartha Mukherjee, and and, avg rating
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