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 laboratory to the real world In superb prose and with an instinct for the dramatic scene, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty first century innovators who mapped the human genome.As The New Yorker said of The Emperor of All Maladies, It s hard to think of many books for a general audience that have rendered any area of modern science and technology with such intelligence, accessibility, and compassion An extraordinary achievement Riveting, revelatory, and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, and an essential preparation for the moral complexity introduced by our ability to create or write the human genome, The Gene is a must read for everyone concerned about the definition and future of humanity This is the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. Download The Gene By Siddhartha Mukherjee – kino-fada.fr I have this tendency, when I read a book as brilliantly informing as this one, to wipe the froth from my mouth, shuffle the pages of notes I ve written contemporaneous to the reading, and plunge into the cocktail party which is this forum, grabbing each of you by the virtual lapels, and launching into a lecture about one of the hundreds of things I learned in the process As if, you know, I missed some of the froth.So, imagine me back from some journey, casting pleasantries aside, and launching I have this tendency, when I read a book as brilliantly informing as this one, to wipe the froth from my mouth, shuffle the pages of notes I ve written contemporaneous to the reading, and plunge into the cocktail party which is this forum, grabbing each of you by the virtual lapels, and launching into a lecture about one of the hundreds of things I learned in the process As if, you know, I missed some of the froth.So, imagine me back from some journey, casting pleasantries aside, and launching wild eyed and, yes, maybe a little frothy, insisting that you grasp the fraction of what I ve learned via the fraction of my ability to explain, as if it is the most important thing in the world Until next week s book and next week s cocktail part...Hello bookish peeps,Another one of my review has been posted on our country s largest daily newspaper s website, The Times of India This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science the gene, the fundamental unit of heredity, and the basic unit of all biological information I Siddhartha MukherjeeThe 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, Siddhartha Mukherjee, is back with another incredibly well written book, The Gene A Hello bookish peeps,Another one of my review has been posted on our country s largest daily newspaper s website, The Times of India This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the h...I listened to the BBC abridged audio book as I often do before ordering it I like hardbacks so I try and be sure first I want to read it I didn t like it enough I loved The Emperor of All Maladies A Biography of Cancer but couldn t feel that deep interest with this one.Now it could be that the book is fantastic and it had a lousy editor at the BBC Oliver Sacks autobiography, On the Move A Life is a 10 star book, but the abridged BBC one is terrible, mostly the wrong episodes chosen But st I listened to the BBC abridged audio book as I often do before ordering it I like hardbacks so I try and be sure first I want to read it I didn t like it enough I lo...I m not going to lie, there were some pages of this book where all my mind saw was science science science science etc etc over and over again instead of the actual words which apparently make sense to people cleverer than me Happily though, the vast majority of the book is written in aengaging and approachable fashion Nevertheless, it clearly represents a vast amount of research, spanning the field from Aristotle to the present day It plots the path of ever increasing knowledge and m I m not going to lie, there were some pages of this book where all my mind saw was science science science science etc etc over and over again instead of the actual words which apparently make sense to people cleverer than me Happily though, the vast majority of the book is written in aengaging and approachable fash...Not half as good a narrative as The Emperor of All Maladies, but still a good account of the Gene s journey and where it is going It will hold your attention even if you have read multiple accounts of the progress of Genetics such as Watson s, because most histories of the Gene focus on the Genome project or on the early phase of discovery of genetics, Mukherjee instead focuses on the applications that are currently ongoing and how those fields have developed My only complaint the focus of th Not half as good a narrative as The Emperor of All Maladies, but still a good account of the Gene s journey and where it is going It will hold your attention even if you have read multiple accounts of the progress of Genetics such as Watson s, because most histories of the Gene focus on the Genome project or on th...Thanks goes to Netgalley and a wonderful author for a wonderfully told series of stories within the world of genetics.I was worried, briefly, by the insistence of bringing Aristotle s take on the genome, or the recapitulation of many of the grandfathers of the science, such as Mendel and Darwin, but the way that these otherwise well known personages were brought alive to the page wasof a story than a dry recounting Even so, I wasn t prepared for what was soon to come.I became engrossed in Thanks goes to Netgalley and a wonderful author for a wonderfully told series of stories within the world of genetics.I was worried, briefly, by the insistence of bringing Aristotle s take on the genome, or the recapitulation of many of the grandfathers of the science, such as Mendel and Darwin, but the way that these oth...This book is a skillfully crafted combination of science history, character sketches, and personal encounters by the author s extended family with a history of mental illness The end result maintains the interest of the reader in a subject that could have been a lot less interesting in the hands on another writer.Most of the book is an account of the history of human advances in the understanding of how heritable characteristics are passed through multiple biological generations Toward the end This book is a skillfully crafted combination of science history, character sketches, and personal encounters by the author s extended family with a history of mental illness The end result maintains the interest of the reader in a subject that could have been a lot less interesting in the hands on another writer.Most of the book is an account of the history of human advances in the understanding of how heritable characteristics are passed through multiple biological generations Toward the end of the book the author explores theambiguous contributions of nature, nurture and chance in the destiny of biological life Also some speculation is made on the future possibilities of gene manipulation and repair.The author s discussion of the complexities of sexual id...Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer s Prize winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies scared the hell out of me right from the get go.when I read that 1 in 4 people will get cancer in your lifetime Mukherjee dives right in again, wasting no time , in The Gene We first learn that mental illness has been in Mukherjee s family for at least two generations He shares personally with us about 4 different relatives 2 cousins and two uncles from his father s side , whose minds were crumb Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer s Prize winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies scared the hell out of me right from the get go.when I read that 1 in 4 people will get cancer in your lifetime Mukherjee dives right in again, wasting no time , in The Gene We first learn that mental illness has been in Mukherjee s family for at least two generations He shares personally with us about 4 different relatives 2 cousins and two uncles from his father s side , whose minds were crumbling Each with a little different story It s clear Mukherjee isn t removed from his research in any shape or form There was even a time when Mukherjee himself went through troubled period as a teenager He stopped talking to his parents for six months, refused to turn in school homework, and threw books in the trash Filled with anxiety, his father took him to a doctor fearing his son was losing his mind fearing anothe...The Gene an intimate history is a most readable story about what it means to be human It is a book that attempts to shine a light on the complex and often fraught history of understanding heredity The book is laid out in a relatively easy to follow format with a writing style suited to those without a scientific background but with a keen interest in science What makes this very readable for the non scientist is how the ...We seek constancy in heredity and find its opposite variation Mutants are necessary to maintain the essence of our selvesSiddhartha Mukherjee, The GeneI ve owned Mukherjee s other book, The Emperor of All Maladies A Biography of Cancer, for years and have consistently found rational reasons to not read it So, I m not sure what made me pick up this book first Perhaps, it was a friend who prompted me Perhaps, too, was my tendency to come late to authors and read them backwards rNAWe seek constancy in heredity and find its opposite variation Mutants are necessary to maintain the essence of our selvesSiddhartha Mukherjee, The GeneI ve owned Mukherjee s other book, Th...

• English
• 02 November 2017
Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Hardcover
• 592 pages
• 1476733503
• Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Gene