The gene : an intimate history / Siddhartha Mukherjee.
The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where Gregor Mendel, a monk working with pea plants, stumbles on the idea of a "unit of hereditary." It intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms postwar biology. It invades discourses concerning race and identity, and provides startling answers to some of the most potent questions coursing through our political and cultural realms. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, gender identity, sexual preference, temperment, choice, and free will, thus raising the most urgent questions affecting our personal realms. Above all, the story of the gene is driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds - from Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin to Francis Crick, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin to the thousands of scientists working today to understand the code of codes.
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- ISBN: 9781476733500 (hc)
- Physical Description: xi, 592 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Scribner, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part One: The Missing Science of Heredity 1865-1935 -- Part Two: In the Sum of the Parts, There Are Only the Parts 1930-1970 -- Part Three: The Dreams of Geneticists 1970-2001 -- Part Four: The Proper Study of Mankind is Man 1970-2005 -- Part Five: Through the Looking Glass 2001-2015 -- Part Six: Post-Genome 2015-... |
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Subject: | Genetics > History. Heredity. Genes. Medical ethics. |
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