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Jun 2, 2016 · 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’. It intersects with Darwin’s theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms post-war biology.
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This book is part history of the development of genetics, part explanation of the working of genes, and part explanation of how genetics influences or causes certain diseases or traits.
Jan 8, 2019 · In Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Gene: An Intimate History, the story of how the modern-day study of genetics arose is detailed through personal narrative, social consequences, and history that is far from sugar-coated. Mukherjee prefaces his writing with his own intimate past: explaining a family line riddled with unfortunate genetic disorders and mental illness.
The book takes readers on the odyssey of piecing together information about the human gene and genome since then, ending with the research and work that is happening now, in the decade after the completion of the sequencing of the human genome.
The book begins as an intimate history of genetics but develops into the intimate future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: the gene, the fundamental unit of hereditary and the basic unit of all biological information.
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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'. It intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution, and...
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May 17, 2016 · From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart...
