The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by Carl Zimmer
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Michael Mauboussin and Ed Yong
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Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human societya force set to shape our future even more radically.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 par...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Science, and Nonfiction.
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Consider The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. Recommended by 11 sources.
“Reading feels brisk and combative: clear metaphors and thought experiments carry much of the book, making abstract evolutionary mechanics concrete for a general reader. The most useful material offers step-by-step dismantling of purposive explanations and replaces them with probabilistic accounts of variation and selection. Main limitation is tone and repetition—several chapters restate the same counterarguments at length—and occasional technical detours into probability and genetics that slow readers who prefer story over demonstration. No hands-on exercises.”
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