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The Gene
An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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• Release date: May 17, 2016
• Language: english
• Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Awards: Royal Society Science Book Prize Nominee (2016), Wellcome Book Prize Nominee (2017), PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Nominee for Longlist (2017), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science & Technology (2016), The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2016)
• Format: hardcover, 592 pages
• Genres: science, history, biology, medicine, genetics, health, medical
• ISBN: 9781476733500 (1476733503)
• Publisher: Scribner

About The Book

Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.

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.

This is an epic, moving history of a scientific idea coming to life, by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. But woven through The Gene, like a red line, is also an intimate history — the story of Mukherjee’s own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives. These concerns reverberate even more urgently today as we learn to “read” and “write” the human genome — unleashing the potential to change the fates and identities of our children.

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 humanity’s past and future.

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