She Has Her Mothers Laugh
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShe
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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Picador ,
Zimmer Carl
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Picador,
Zimmer Carl
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