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Description: She Has Her Mother's Laugh : The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, Paperback by Zimmer, Carl, ISBN 1101984619, ISBN-13 9781101984611, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 2019 PEN/. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist

"Scienc of the year"The Guardian

One of New York Times 100 Notabls for 2018
One of Publishers Weeklys Top Ten Books of 2018
One of Kirkuss Best Books of 2018 
One of Mental Flosss Best Books of 2018
One of Science Fridays Best Sciencs of 2018

“Extraordinary”—New York Times Book Review   
"Magisterial"—The Atlantic

"Engrossing"—Wired
"Leading contender as the most outstanding nonfiction work of the year"—Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do precisely that. Gradually, people translated their old notions about heredity into a language of genes. As the technology for studying genes became cheaper, millions of people ordered genetic tests to link themselves to missing parents, to distant ancestors, to ethnic identities...

But, Zimmer writes, “Each of us carries an amalgam of fragments of DNA, stitched together from some of our many ancestors. Each piece has its own ancestry, traveling a different path back through human history. A particular fragment may sometimes be cause for worry, but most of our DNA influences who we are—our appearance, our height, our penchants—in inconceivably subtle ways.” Heredity isn’t just about genes that pass from parent to child. Heredity continues within our own bodies, as a single cell gives rise to trillions of cells that make up our bodies. We say we inherit genes from our ancestors—using a word that once referred to kingdoms and estates—but we inherit other things that matter as much or more to our lives, from microbes to technologies we use to make life more comfortable. We need a new definition of what heredity is and, through Carl Zimmer’s lucid exposition and storytelling, this resounding tour de force delivers it. 

Weaving historical and current scientific research, his own experience with his two daughters, and the kind of original reporting expected of one of the world’s best science journalists, Zimmer ultimately unpacks urgent bioethical quandaries arising from new biomedical technologies, but also long-standing presumptions about who we really are and what we can pass on to future generations.

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Book Title: She Has Her Mother's Laugh : the Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

Number of Pages: 672 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2019

Topic: Life Sciences / Evolution, Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Life Sciences / Biology

Item Height: 1.4 in

Genre: Science

Item Weight: 22.6 Oz

Author: Carl Zimmer

Item Length: 9.2 in

Item Width: 6.1 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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