Gene :
Mukherjee, Siddhartha.
Gene : intimate history / Siddhartha Mukherjee - India Penguin group 2016 - 592 p.
"The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where Gregor Mendel, a monk working with pea plants, 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 postwar biology. It invades discourses concerning race and identity and provides startling answers
9780670087143
Genes
Genetics
Heredity
Medical ethics
Families--Health and hygiene
Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983
Human genetics
Human genome
616.042 MUK-S
Gene : intimate history / Siddhartha Mukherjee - India Penguin group 2016 - 592 p.
"The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where Gregor Mendel, a monk working with pea plants, 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 postwar biology. It invades discourses concerning race and identity and provides startling answers
9780670087143
Genes
Genetics
Heredity
Medical ethics
Families--Health and hygiene
Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983
Human genetics
Human genome
616.042 MUK-S