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The Gene: An Intimate History

By : Siddhartha Mukherjee

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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 collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms post-war biology. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, temperament, choice and free will. 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.This is an epic, moving history of a scientific idea coming to life, by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. But woven through The Gene, like a red line, is also an intimate history ? the story of Mukherjee?s own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives. These concerns reverberate even more urgently today as we

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Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee

Pages : 592 pages

Publisher : Scribner

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 1476733503

ISBN-13 : 9781476733500

 
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