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020			_a9780670087143
082			_a616.042 MUK-S
100			_aMukherjee, Siddhartha.
245			_aGene : _bintimate history / _cSiddhartha Mukherjee
260			_aIndia _bPenguin group _c2016
300			_a592 p.
365			_aINR _b699.00
500			_a "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
650			_aGenes
650			_aGenetics
650			_aHeredity
650			_aMedical ethics
650			_aFamilies--Health and hygiene
650			_aBuck, Carrie, 1906-1983
650			_aHuman genetics
650			_aHuman genome
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