The Gene: An Intimate History (EPUB)

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swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome. “A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “The Gene is a book we all should read” (USA TODAY).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner; Reprint edition (May 2, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
eBook Digital ‏ : ‎ 608 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 147673352X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1476733524

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The Gene: An Intimate History (EPUB)

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee is a #1 New York Times Bestseller and the basis for the PBS Ken Burns documentary. The book is a fascinating history of the gene and provides a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick, according to Elle. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author brings science, history, and the future together in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself, as noted by Ken Burns. The Gene is an epic that braids science, history, and memoir into a masterpiece with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost, according to The New York Times.

Mukherjee describes the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. Throughout the biography, he expresses intellectual ideas through emotional stories, swaddles medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability and occasional flashes of pure poetry, states The Washington Post. The book is not only the story of human heredity but also of Mukherjee’s family, with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness, which reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics.

The Gene describes the centuries of research and experimentation-from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin and from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome. “A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are,” says Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. The book is a revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. ‘The Gene is a book we all should read’ says USA Today.