The gene An intimate history - Siddhartha Mukherjee - Vintage Uk - Poche - Essai

This NEW YORK TIMES bestselling book is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from bestselling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. 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 humanitys past and future. ** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ** The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader from Darwin's groundbreaking theory of evolution, to the horrors of Nazi eugenics, to present day and beyond - as we learn to "read" and "write" the human genome that unleashes the potential to change the fates and identities of our children. Majestic in its scope and ambition, The Gene provides us with a definitive account of the epic history of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes