TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mukherjee, Siddhartha.
TI  - Gene: intimate history 
SN  - 9780670087143
U1  - 616.042 MUK-S 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - India
PB  - Penguin group
KW  - Genes
KW  - Genetics
KW  - Heredity
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Families--Health and hygiene
KW  - Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983
KW  - Human genetics
KW  - Human genome
N1  - 	
"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
ER  -