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I usually purchase from my local indie bookshop but noticed that the paperback version was 33% off on Amazon.ca this week so finally ordered it. I've been wanting to purchase this one since it came out and somehow never got around to it.❤️📚

“Normalcy is the antithesis of evolution.”

“Can we make our genomes a little better, without making ourselves substantially worse?”

This #nonfiction book takes a very holistic approach to its subject, which I more than approve of. Aside from dumping on you a huge—and surprisingly digestible—load of info, both #scientific and #historical, it asks important moral questions without turning moralistic.

Highly recommended.

5/5

1st edition, 1st printing!
I love how work on cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies. Adding this to my shelf.
#BookHaul #nonfiction #TBR #science #medicine

Sura-na Bheda Pramaana Sunaavo;
Bheda, Abheda, Pratham kara Jaano.
Show me that you can divide the notes of a song;
But first, show me that you can discern
Between what can be divided
And what cannot.
—An anonymous musical composition inspired by a classical Sanskrit poem

Book #11 of 2021 was completed as an audio book during my commute to & from work every day as an oncology nurse. I chose it because I had loved The Emperor of All Maladies SO MUCH. This is an absolutely fantastic narrative of genetics and of humanity. Cannot recommend enough!!!

“Junk science props up totalitarian regimes. And totalitarian regimes produce junk science.”

Great read if you like science. Mukherjee is an amazing storyteller. Highly recommend it.
At some places though you will feel a little lost especially at the end when discussing about sexual identity and it‘s relationship to genes.

The Gene is a fascinating, fantastic 5⭐️ read!!

#ScienceSeptember #IntegrateYourShelf

As Franklin charged down the river toward Wilkins, the boats came close enough to collide. "Now she's trying to drown me," he exclaimed in mock horror. There was nervous laughter - the kind when a joke cuts too close to the truth.

Yes, I am having birthday cake for breakfast, because why not? But I‘m also reading Mukherjee and I‘m far enough along in The Gene that in a minute I‘m going to find his article on Covid-19 in the New Yorker because I trust him. 📚💙📚💜📚💚📚💛📚❤️

My schoolwork is finished for the day, and it‘s 70 degrees outside, and the air smells like lilacs 💜📚

#company 📚💙📚💙📚💙📚💙📚💙📚💙📚

Even in a monastery (a walled garden, one room cells), books made all the difference 📚💙📚💙

Currently sorting through tbr stacks to find some good reading material for the next few weeks... I'm thinking now might be a good time to dive into a chunkster or two!

My pick for #liveandlearn for #booked2020
This was dense in parts, but incredibly informative. Not only did I learn a LOT about genes and the current state of genetics, but this spurned me to learn more about my sister‘s genetic disorder, which I also didn‘t know that much about. Mukherjee writes intelligently and compassionately. Well-worth fighting through some difficult science. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

This book is both fascinating and heartbreaking. My little sister has a genetic disorder: gene UBE3A is missing, deleted from her chromosome. As I learn about the importance of genes, the way they are supposed to work and create life, I‘m both thrilled to learn more about why exactly she is who she is, but deeply grieving the loss of little bugger UBE3A, who skipped town and cut her off from so so much.

A history of the gene, a view of where and how the concept came to be, how humanity has used the knowledge from the time it came to knowledge and after recent discoveries. The book is sometimes hard to follow. It was masterfully written with a pint of personal family history from the author and valuable information that all comes together for a better understanding of the gene. Can't recommend this book enough.

#HumanNature ...as told by our genetic makeup. #Movember

I recently moved and have started unpacking my books. This is my main shelf for nonfiction TBR.

#exploration #science #genetics #viruses #evensomehistory

Adding this #Nonfiction #medical book to my #TBR stack. I'm excited to read Mukherjee's follow up to his wildly successful #EmperorofAllMaladies.
#knowledge #power #PulitzerPrize

Hard to read in parts mainly because I don't have a biology degree. But covers some very essential items

Didn‘t expect a book on genetics to make me laugh out loud 😊

Another deeply informative & meticulous yet accessible book from this author. I‘m fascinated by genetics in general; learning so much about the history of the gene itself, our knowledge of it, our work with it, was eye-opening. I appreciate how well he conveys info to laypeople too—not overly simplifying it but just making it understandable w/o a science degree. At times it got a bit overly academic, but overall well worth the time to read! 4/5 ⭐️

After nearly a decade of intensive hunting, what geneticists have found is not a “gay gene” but a few “gay locations.”

[Look, all 5 feet of me is a “gay location” 🏳️‍🌈💁🏻‍♀️🧚🏼‍♀️]

Translation: Cancer is a monstrous bitch.

Less than a century ago, folks. Oy vey.

In the early 1850s, Mendel had tried a more audacious variation of this experiment, starting with white and gray field mice. He had bred mice in his room—mostly undercover—to try to produce mice hybrids. But the abbot, although generally tolerant of Mendel‘s whims, had intervened: a monk coaxing mice to mate to understand heredity was a little too risqué, even for the Augustinians.

???

The crucial driver of evolution, Darwin understood, was not nature‘s sense of purpose, but her sense of humor.

Some nice light escapist weekend reading!!! I‘m honestly looking forward to it because The Emperor of All Maladies was so good, and I‘m fascinated by genetics, heredity, and the like. Plus, I just found out that my kitty might be very sick and I just need something else I can really focus my mind on right now. #nowreading

#AlltheBooks!TBR

Really interesting! A fabulous deep dive into an what makes us us.

Eye opening...never knew the sacrifices made by scientists over discoveries.

The basic unit of #Inheritance is the gene, and Mukherjee does a wonderful job explaining it in a way that is interesting for scientists and non-scientists alike. I‘ve listened to this is an audiobook twice, and highly recommend it that way. The narration is excellent. 🎧👍🏻👩🏻‍⚕️

#StarTrekSummerMay

Ask me anything, I‘m a genius now! Well, at least it feels that way after reading this book. Of course some of it went over my head (I‘m still not clear how to make insulin), but less than I expected, owing to Mukhergee‘s incredible ability to make very complicated processes comprehensible to a lay person.

Genes might be invisible to the naked eye, but have the ultimate influence on our existence 🧬 I would never normally pick this book up on my own but after seeing so many rave reviews I figured I would give it a shot!...someday.
#invisibletouch
#anglophileapril

5⭐️

I can‘t believe I loved a book on the history of genetics...

This book starts at the very beginning of the field with Darwin and Mendel and works its way all the way to present day with the creation of the human genome project and gene therapy.

I would highly recommend for anyone interested in genetics, eugenics and racism, gender identity and more!

#audiobook #scribd #nonfiction #umn #gradlife #mpls #twincities

This is a book on the history of genetics. I know they are are talking about bacteria/virus chimera but I just keep thinking about the chimera in Full Metal Alchemist. I might have anime on the brain while reading this 🙈

#fullmetalalchemist #fma #nonfiction #science #anime #manga #mpls #twincities

Amazing book being a history of the development of genetic theory from Darwin and Mendel through to modern day with the fulling mapping of the genome and the use of CRISPR to edit genes. A book which will help you understand one of the key technologies the world and the potential impact that it may have on the future, in a readable and large understandable style.

I can definitely say that I never expected myself to put off reading a fantasy novel to keep pick up a required book on the history of genes. Wow, I can‘t get enough of this and the audiobook that I‘m listening too simultaneously is superb!

#weekendplans #requiredreading #nonfiction #audiobook #scribd #umn #gradlife #mpls #twincities

Oh! The struggles of a polygamist reader. Some I‘ve started reading a few months ago, one was a couple of days ago and one was a couple of hours ago . But I am determine to finish all of them this year. Is there a gene therapy for this condition? 🤔

The possibility of understanding and curing illness has to be balanced against human desire for using genetics to create “better” people or the “perfect race.” Scary stuff, fascinating book.

#genetics #geneticscience #science

So much great history and information in one book!

#genetics #geneticscience #science

1. Get holiday cards addressed and in the mail.
2. Attending a friend‘s retirement party.
3. Russian tea cakes
4. The Gene (tagged)
5. Any #littens who want to participate

#friyayintro @howjessreads

Happy Sunday!

I think this is my first time #audiocommuting.

Finally starting #nonfictionnovember work this meaty selecting. It's clocks in at just under 20 hours.

#amlistening #nonfiction

Started this gem after finishing Hillbilly Elegy on Monday. Excellent beginning!

#AllThePeopleInTheWorld have genes...#SeptemberDanes