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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity - Softcover

Zimmer, Carl

 
9781509818549: She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1509818545 ISBN 13: 9781509818549
Verlag: Picador, 2018

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

'Elegantly written, wittily constructed . . . My science book of the year.' Robin McKie, Observer, 'Best Books of 2018'

She Has Her Mother’s Laugh 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 argues, 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 together 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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Carl Zimmer is a popular science writer and columnist, who reports from the frontiers of biology, where scientists are expanding our understanding of life. Since 2013 he has been a columnist at the New York Times. He is a popular speaker at universities, medical schools, museums, and festivals, and he is also a frequent on radio programs such as Radiolab and This American Life. In 2016, Zimmer won the Stephen Jay Gould Prize, awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution to recognize individuals whose sustained efforts have advanced public understanding of evolutionary science. Zimmer has written on subjects ranging from viruses to neuroscience to evolution, including She Has Her Mother's Laugh, focusing on heredity.

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In this thought-provoking book, award-winning New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity, in a wide-ranging, ambitious and original investigation of a force that has crucially shaped human society – and is set to shape our future even more radically.
Heredity isn’t a simple matter of genes that pass from parent to child. It continues within our own bodies, as a single cell gives rise to the trillions that make up an adult. We say we inherit genes from our ancestors – using a verb that once specifically referred to kingdoms and aristocratic estates – but we also inherit other things that matter as much or more to our lives, from microbes to the technologies we use to make life more comfortable. We need a new – broader-ranging – definition of what heredity is.
Weaving historical and current scientific research, original reporting and his own experience as the father of two daughters, Zimmer unpacks the urgent ethical quandaries that arise from new biomedical technologies, but also long-standing presumptions about who we really are and what it is that we can pass on to future generations.
‘A masterpiece – a career-best work from one of the world’s premier science writers, on a topic that literally touches every person on the planet.’ Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes
‘No one unravels the mysteries of science as brilliantly and compellingly as Carl Zimmer, and he has proven it again with She Has Her Mother’s Laugh – a sweeping, magisterial book that illuminates the very nature of who we are’ David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
‘Zimmer writes like a dream, teaches a ton of accessible science, and provides the often intensely moving stories of the people whose lives have been saved or destroyed by the science and pseudoscience of heredity . . . I loved this book.’ Robert Sapolsky, author of Behave

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1509818545
ISBN 13 
9781509818549
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
672
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