ASIN: B01GZALG4W
Publisher: FastReads
Pages: 49
“Nothing about the natural world, at first glance, suggests the existence of a gene.” - Siddhartha Mukherjee“When power is discovered, man always turns on it [...] The science of heredity will soon provide power on a stupendous scale; and in some country, at some time not, perhaps, far distant, that power will be applied to control the composition of a nation.” - William Bateson"Genetic knowledge has historically been secured largely through the experimental manipulation of peas, primroses, fruit flies, nematodes and micro-organisms and, while Mukherjee has little to say about the hugely important agricultural technologies resulting from plant and animal genetics, the ultimate prize of genetics has always involved ourselves – how to understand ourselves and how to make better versions of ourselves." - Steven Shapin, The Guardian"The gene is, and is not, the determiner of our identity. ...
