The Gene: An Intimate History from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, has recently been added to the library collection.
See Mukherjee discuss his work in this clip from Vintage Books:
Mukherjee’s latest title is a magnificent history of the gene and an answer to the defining question of our future: “What becomes of being human when we learn to “read” and “write” our own genetic information?”
Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee brings to life the search to understand human heredity and its influence on our lives, personalities, and identities.
This is perhaps the greatest detective story ever told—a millennia-long search, led by a thousand explorers, from Aristotle to Mendel to Francis Collins, for the question marks at the center of every living cell. Like The Emperor of All Maladies, The Gene is prodigious, sweeping, and ultimately transcendent. If you’re interested in what it means to be human, today and in the tomorrows to come, you must read this book.” – Anthony Doerr, Author of All the Light We Cannot See, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
This resource may be found in TriCat, our Library catalog.