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The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Gene's odyssey: history, science, identity, and destiny.

"The Gene: An Intimate History" might just change how you view yourself and humanity. Mukherjee's narrative talent brings to life the thrilling journey of genetic discovery. If you're intrigued by how our blueprints shape who we are and could be, this read intertwines science, history, and personal tales in a way that's accessible and deeply thought-provoking. It's an essential primer for anyone interested in the ethical debates surrounding genetics in our rapidly advancing era.

  • Royal Society Science Book Prize Nominee (2016)
  • Wellcome Book Prize Nominee (2017)
  • PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Longlist (2017)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science & Technology (2016)
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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ISBN: 9781501150128
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Export
Date of Publication: 2016-05-17
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, History
Related Topics: Popular Science, Medical, Genetics, Medicine, Biology, Health
Goodreads rating: 4.36
(rated by 48293 readers)

Description

Pulitzer Prize winner Siddhartha Mukherjee has written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his biography of cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies. Mukherjee interweaves science, social history, and the story of his own family to explain the science of genetics and to confront the extraordinary influence of heredity on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.In superb prose, and with an instinct for the dramatic scene, Mukherjee 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 introduced by our ability to create or “write” a genome, and thus determine human fate. Riveting, majestic, revelatory, The Gene is a must-read for everyone concerned about the definition and future of humanity.As The New Yorker said of The Emperor of All Maladies, “It’s hard to think of many books for a general audience that have rendered any area of modern science and technology with such intelligence, accessibility, and compassion…. An extraordinary achievement.”
 

Gene's odyssey: history, science, identity, and destiny.

"The Gene: An Intimate History" might just change how you view yourself and humanity. Mukherjee's narrative talent brings to life the thrilling journey of genetic discovery. If you're intrigued by how our blueprints shape who we are and could be, this read intertwines science, history, and personal tales in a way that's accessible and deeply thought-provoking. It's an essential primer for anyone interested in the ethical debates surrounding genetics in our rapidly advancing era.

  • Royal Society Science Book Prize Nominee (2016)
  • Wellcome Book Prize Nominee (2017)
  • PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Longlist (2017)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science & Technology (2016)
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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