Above all, the story of the gene is driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds-from Mendel and Darwin to Francis Crick, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin to the thousands of scientists working today to understand the code of codes. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, gender identity, sexual orientation, temperament, choice, and free will, thus raising the most urgent questions affecting our personal realms.
It invades discourses concerning race and identity and provides startling answers to some of the most potent questions coursing through our political and cultural realms. The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where Gregor Mendel, a monk working with pea plants, stumbles on the idea of a "unit of heredity." It intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. 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 our children. Xi, 592 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits 24 cm The gene : an intimate history / Siddhartha Mukherjee Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google Books
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