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An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Gene Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Gene

From ​the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a 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?

Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.

Throughout the narrative, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—cuts like a bright, red line, reminding us of the many questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2016

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Penguin, London, 2017
594 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780099584575
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Scribner, New York, 2016
594 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 9781476733500
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Vintage, London, 2016
594 oldal · puhatáblás · ISBN: 9780099584575

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