The Gene : An Intimate History (Record no. 296262)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780670087143
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 616.042 SID-G
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Personal name Siddhartha Mukherjee
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Gene : An Intimate History
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Books Ltd
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2016
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856, where a monk 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 post-war biology. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, temperament, choice and free will. Above all, this is a story driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds from Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin, and the thousands of scientists still working to understand the code of codes. This is an epic, moving history of a scientific idea being brought to life, by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. But woven through The Gene, like a red line, is also an intimate history the story of Mukherjee's own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives. These concerns reverberate even more urgently today as we learn to 'read' and 'write' the human genome unleashing the potential to change the fates and identities of our children. 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 humanity's past and future.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Genetics -- History. Heredity. Genes.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 30/07/2016   616.042 SID-G DCB2974 30/07/2016 30/07/2016 Book