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  1. 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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  2. May 12, 2016 · By James Gleick. May 12, 2016. THE GENE. An Intimate History. By Siddhartha Mukherjee. 592 pp. Scribner. $32. Even before the beginning of human history, people recognized that parents...

  3. Sat Jun 04 2016 - 02:00. The Gene: An Intimate History. Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee. ISBN-13: 9781476733500. Publisher: Bodley Head. Guideline Price: £25. When The Irish Times says, as it...

  4. Mar 29, 2017 · I’ve been looking forward to reading Siddhartha Mukherjee’s latest book, “The Gene: An Intimate History”, since it was published in 2016. His Pulitzer prize-winning “The Emperor of All Maladies” is one of the most interesting and informative books about cancer that I’ve read.

  5. Jan 8, 2019 · This book is based in science but hits hard when it comes to empathy. It details both the suffering of the afflicted themselves and the devastation of their families. The Gene: An Intimate History provides the educated reader with an accessible text to understand where the study of genetics has come from and where it is going, told through ...

  6. When it comes to the modern era of genomics, Mukherjee dissects simplistic ideas about how genes affect complex traits such as intelligence.

  7. The book provides a comprehensive history of the most intimate science of our time—the fundamentals of heredity. What better person to tell this story than the author of The Laws of Medicine and The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and was voted one of Time’s 100 best ...