The Gene - An Intimate History. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Wissensbuch des Jahres 2017. Nominiert: Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016, Nominiert: Wellcome Book Prize 2017. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Wis
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2017 |
| Seiten | 608 |
| Format | 17,9 x 19,8 x 3,2 cm |
| B-Format | |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0099584573 |
| EAN | 9780099584575 |
| Bestell-Nr | 09958457EA |
This NEW YORK TIMES bestselling book is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee.Majestic in its ambition, and unflinching in its honesty,THE GENE gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity and a vision of both humanitys past and future.
Klappentext:
__ NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER __
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies.
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 Brie f History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Being Mortal by Atul Gwande.
'Siddhartha Mukherjee is the perfect person to guide us through the past, present, and future of genome science' Bill Gates
'A thrilling and comprehensive account of what seems certain to be the most radical, controversial and, to borrow from the subtitle, intimate science of our time...Read this book and steel yourself for what comes next' Sunday Times
Rezension:
With a marriage of architectural precision and luscious narrative, an eye for both the paradoxical detail and the unsettling irony, and a genius for locating the emotional truths buried in chemical abstractions, Mukherjee leaves you feeling as though you've just aced a college course for which you'd been afraid to register - and enjoyed every minute of it Andrew Solomon Washington Post