TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mukherjee, Siddhartha
TI  - The gene - an intimate history
SN  - 1847922635
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Bodley Head
KW  - Genetics
KW  - History
N1  - Prologue: Families; Part one: The ""missing science of heredity"" 1865-1935; Part two: ""In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts"" 1930-1970; Part three: ""The dream of geneticists"" 1970-2001; Part four ""The proper study of mankind is man"" 1970-2005; Part five: Through the looking glass; Part six: Post-genome 2015 - ...; Epilogue: Beda Abheda
N2  - The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where a monk 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 gene transforms post-war biology. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, temperament, choice and free will. This is a story driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds – from Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin, and the thousands of scientists still working to understand the code of codes."
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