The gene an intimate history
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author draws on his scientific knowledge and research to describe the magisterial history of a scientific idea, the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans; that governs our form, function, and fate; and that determines the future of...
| Main Author: | Mukherjee, Siddhartha (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Scribner,
2016.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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| Online Access: |
Go to Downloadable eBook Here. |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Families
- "The missing science of heredity" 1865-1935
- "In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts" 1930-1970
- "The dreams of geneticists" 1970-2001
- "The proper study of mankind is man" 1970-2005
- Through the looking glass 2001-2015
- Post-genome 2015-...
- Epilogue: Bheda, Abheda.