“Ridley is a lucid, engaging and enthusiastic guide to the double-helical DNA that comprises our inheritable human essence.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review It also makes us see the enormous social and political consequences of that knowledge.” - New York Times Book Review “A jargon-free excursion of intellectual discovery that will carry any reader along its tour of exciting, often delightful, stories structured to help us understand in everyday terms, and to remember, the revelations about genetic evolution that have come to light in the last few decades.
“A tour de force: clear, witty, timely, and informed by an intelligence that sees new knowledge as a blessing and not a curse.” - London Times He captures their slippery beauty.” - Washington Post Book World He crafts some of the clearest explanations of complex biological processes that I have encountered. “A superb writer whose exquisite, often moving descriptions of life’s designs remind me of the best work of the late Lewis Thomas. “A fascinating tour of the human genome…If you want to catch a glimpse of the biotech century that is now dawning…GENOME is an excellent place to start.” - Wall Street Journal and more fascinating insights into their genetic makeupĬutting through complicated scientific jargon, Ridley engages your students’ minds and imaginations, exploring and making clear to them the applications of genetics: the search for understanding of where we come from and where we are headed.Įxamining a scientific achievement on a parwith the splitting of the atom-and with asmany far-reaching implications-Genome will help students understand who they are as humans-and where they may be going.genes that may influence their intelligence.
genes that distinguish them from chimpanzees.
Genome helps them understand what the human genetic code is, how it works, and how discoveries in the field of genetics are revolutionizing medicine, pharmaceuticals, business, politics, and our own sense of what it means to be human.īy picking one newly discovered gene from each of the twenty-three human chromosomes and telling its story, Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. But what does that mean? In witty, clear language, Ridley answers this question for your students. Following in the tradition of James Gleick’ Chaos, Matt Ridly vividly explores the most profound scientific discovery of the century-the mapping of the human genome.
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