THE GENE

The Gene is an intellectual tour de force. One of the best books on the implications of human hereditary transmission. It is a science book while a the same time a literary feat. The implications for language and any human behaviour are profound. Siddhartha has his own way of tackling the issues , not fearing to show intertwine his own life history. The old nurture vs nature debate but now in systematic historic perspective on the rise and dominance of genetics. From a Christian worldview perspective the topics that are brought forth are worth pondering. Do yourself a favour do read this book.

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The Gene An Intimate History

By Siddhartha Mukherjee

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladiesa magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to read and write our own genetic information?

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"This is perhaps the greatest detective story ever tolda millennia-long search, led by a thousand explorers, from Aristotle to Mendel to Francis Collins, for the question marks at the center of every living cell. Like The Emperor of All Maladies, The Gene is prodigious, sweeping, and ultimately transcendent. If youre interested in what it means to be human, today and in the tomorrows to come, you must read this book." Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See SEE ALL PRAISE READ AN EXCERPT

The Gene The Walled Garden The students of heredity, especially, understand all of their subject except their subject. They were, I suppose, bred and born in that brier-patch, and have really explored it without coming to the end of it. That is, they have studied everything but the question of what they are studying.

G. K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils

Ask the plants of the earth, and they will teach you.

Job 12:8

The monastery was originally a nunnery. The monks of Saint Augustines Order had once livedas they often liked to grousein more lavish circumstances in the ample rooms of a large stone abbey on the top of a hill in the heart of the medieval city of Brno (Brno in Czech, Brnn in German). The city had grown around them over four centuries, cascading down the slopes and then sprawling out over the flat landscape... READ MORE HEAR AN EXCERPT

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Photograph Deborah Feingold SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author ofThe Emperor of AllMaladies:A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of Medicine. He is the editor of Best Science Writing 2013Mukherjee isan assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher.A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School.He has published articles in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine,The New York Times, and Cell.He lives in New York with his wifeand daughters.

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