The Gene : An Intimate History

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  • Royal Society Science Book Prize Nominee (2016)
  • Wellcome Book Prize Nominee (2017)
  • PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Nominee for Longlist (2017)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science & Technology (2016)
  • The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2016)
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The Gene : An Intimate History

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ISBN: 9780099584575
Publisher: Scribner
Date of Publication: 2017-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Science
Goodreads rating: 4.36
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** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies.The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader from Darwin’s groundbreaking theory of evolution, to the horrors of Nazi eugenics, to present day and beyond - as we learn to “read” and “write” the human genome that unleashes the potential to change the fates and identities of our children. Majestic in its scope and ambition, The Gene provides us with a definitive account of the epic history of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans – and paints a fascinating vision of both humanity’s past and future. For fans of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Being Mortal by Atul Gwande.
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