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The Gene

An Intimate History

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The Gene

Auteur(s): Siddhartha Mukherjee
Narrateur(s): Dennis Boutsikaris
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2017 Audie Award Finalist for Non-Fiction

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle).

“Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself.” —Ken Burns

“Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” (The New York Times). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.

“Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.

“A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “The Gene is a book we all should read” (USA TODAY).
Anthropologie Monde Médecine et secteur de la santé Science Sciences biologiques Sciences sociales Troubles et maladies Santé mentale Maladie génétique Médecine Santé Biographie Mathématiques Ouvrages généraux
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At the end of it, you will feel like you got a very well guided tour of the history of genetic research. It’s incredible that he made this book.

Narrator is excellent.

Satisfying

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Loved the weaving of story, history, science and philosophy, I highly recommend this to anyone wanting to get a grasp of the field.

Brilliant

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It was such an easy listen, finished it in only couple days. The history of our understanding of the gene is indeed packed with information, however the author is able to draw you in to this complex world - and the hours of listen makes you want to learn more about this field.

Easy to understand complex ideas.

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compelling, engaging, and thought-provoking! a must-read for anyone hoping for the future. excellent narration. I truly enjoyed it!

Thoracik Rick

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This book is beautiful. It poetically describes the history of genetic discovery through the lives of scientists with relevance to modern people and the author’s own family as an example. Insightful enjoyable read.

Superb read

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