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Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Gene

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to “read” and “write” our own genetic information?The extraordinary Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft, brilliant, and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. Throughout the narrative, the story of Mukherjee's own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—cuts like a bright, red line, reminding us of the many questions that hang over our ability to translate the…
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  • Olga Gshared an impression3 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot

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    • Мариhas quoted6 years ago
      They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
      They may not mean to, but they do.
      They fill you with the faults they had
      And add some extra, just for you.
      —Philip Larkin, “This Be The Verse”
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    • Alma Kanafinahas quotedlast year
      A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick. This theory was most evocatively proposed by the physicist John Wheeler in the 1990s: “Every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself—derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely . . . from answers to yes-or-no questions, binary choices, bits . . . ; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin.”
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      • kinokitohas quoted2 years ago
        These fragments are vastly more common than genes, resulting in yet another major idiosyncrasy of our genome: much of the human genome is not particularly human

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