Genome
The Autobiography Of A Species In 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley
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“@leonjohnstone And everything by @mattwridley is worth reading Genome, Red Queen, Origin of Virtue, etc. | I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all this author's.”
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Recommended by 8 sources and appears in That Make You Smarter, Books Recommended by Naval Ravikant, and Most Recommended Books.
Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twentythree pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. Questions that will affect the rest of yo...
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