Alfred Street (University of Auckland Store)
Are you sure you want to delete this address?
The Gene : An Intimate History
Paperback Edition: 1
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history.
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.
Pages : 593
Publisher : Vintage Books
Publication date : 2017-04-18
Subjects: Non-fiction, Science And Technology, Popular Science, Science: General Issues, Medical Genetics, Genetics (non-medical)