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She Has Her Mother's Laugh : The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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- ISBN
- 9781101984598
- Book Title
- She Has Her Mother's Laugh : the Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 2in
- Genre
- Science
- Topic
- Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Life Sciences / Biology
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 33.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 672 Pages
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2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist "Science book of the year" -- The Guardian One of New York Times 100 Notable Books for 2018 One of Publishers Weekly 's Top Ten Books of 2018 One of Kirkus 's Best Books of 2018 One of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018 One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018 "Extraordinary"-- New York Times Book Review "Magisterial" -- The Atlantic "Engrossing" -- Wired "Leading contender as the most outstanding nonfiction work of the year" -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune Celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do precisely that. Gradually, people translated their old notions about heredity into a language of genes. As the technology for studying genes became cheaper, millions of people ordered genetic tests to link themselves to missing parents, to distant ancestors, to ethnic identities... But, Zimmer writes, "Each of us carries an amalgam of fragments of DNA, stitched together from some of our many ancestors. Each piece has its own ancestry, traveling a different path back through human history. A particular fragment may sometimes be cause for worry, but most of our DNA influences who we are--our appearance, our height, our penchants--in inconceivably subtle ways." Heredity isn't just about genes that pass from parent to child. Heredity continues within our own bodies, as a single cell gives rise to trillions of cells that make up our bodies. We say we inherit genes from our ancestors--using a word that once referred to kingdoms and estates--but we inherit other things that matter as much or more to our lives, from microbes to technologies we use to make life more comfortable. We need a new definition of what heredity is and, through Carl Zimmer's lucid exposition and storytelling, this resounding tour de force delivers it. Weaving historical and current scientific research, his own experience with his two daughters, and the kind of original reporting expected of one of the world's best science journalists, Zimmer ultimately unpacks urgent bioethical quandaries arising from new biomedical technologies, but also long-standing presumptions about who we really are and what we can pass on to future generations.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1101984597
ISBN-13
9781101984598
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239810228
Product Key Features
Book Title
She Has Her Mother's Laugh : the Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Life Sciences / Biology
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Science
Number of Pages
672 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
2in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
33.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Qh431
Reviews
"No one unravels the mysteries of science as brilliantly and compellingly as Carl Zimmer, and he has proven it again with She Has Her Mother's Laugh --a sweeping, magisterial book that illuminates the very nature of who we are." -- David Grann , #1 New York Times bestselling author, award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker, and author most recently of Killers of the Flower Moon "Humans have long noticed something remarkable, namely that organisms are similar but not identical to their parents--in other words, that some traits can be inherited. From this observation has grown the elegant science of genetics, with its dazzling medical breakthroughs. And from this has also grown the toxic pseudosciences of eugenics, Lysenkoism and Nazi racial ideology. Carl Zimmer traces the intertwined histories of the science and pseudoscience of heredity. Zimmer writes like a dream, teaches a ton of accessible science, and provides the often intensely moving stories of the people whose lives have been saved or destroyed by this topic. I loved this book." -- Robert Sapolsky , Professor of biology and neurology at Stanford University, and author most recently of New York Times bestseller Behave " She Has Her Mother's Laugh is a masterpiece--a career-best work from one of the world's premier science writers, on a topic that literally touches every person on the planet." -- Ed Yong , author of New York Times bestseller I Contain Multitudes , staff writer at The Atlantic "Carl Zimmer lifts off the lid, dumps out the contents, and sorts through the pieces of one of history's most problematic ideas: heredity. Deftly touching on psychology, genetics, race, and politics, She Has Her Mother's Laugh is a superb guide to a subject that is only becoming more important. Along the way, it explains some remarkably complicated science with equally remarkable clarity--a totally impressive job all around." --Charles C. Mann, author of New York Times bestseller 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus "Carl Zimmer is not only among my favorite science writers--he's also now responsible for making me wonder why there is more Neanderthal DNA on earth right now than when Neanderthals were here, and why humanity is getting taller and smarter in the last few generations. She Has Her Mother's Laugh explains how our emerging understanding of genetics is touching almost every part of society, and will increasingly touch our lives." --Charles Duhigg, author of the bestselling Smarter Faster Better and The Power of Habit, "She Has Her Mother's Laugh is a masterpiece--a career-best work from one of the world's premier science writers, on a topic that literally touches every person on the planet." --Ed Yong, author of New York Times bestseller I Contain Multitudes and staff writer at The Atlantic
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2017-046101
Dewey Decimal
572.838
Dewey Edition
23
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