{"product_id":"the-gene-an-intimate-history","title":"The Gene: An Intimate History","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning  bestselling author of The Emperor of All Maladies--a magnificent history of the gene and a response to the defining question of the future: What becomes of being human when we learn to \"read\" and \"write\" our own genetic information?  Siddhartha Mukherjee has a written a biography of the gene as deft  brilliant  and illuminating as his extraordinarily successful biography of cancer. Weaving science  social history  and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times  Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives  personalities  identities  fates  and choices.  Throughout the narrative  the story of Mukherjees own family--with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness--cuts like a bright  red line  reminding us of the many questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In superb prose and with an instinct for the dramatic scene  he describes the centuries of research and experimentation--from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin  from Boveri and Morgan to Crick  Watson and Franklin  all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.  As The New Yorker said of The Emperor of All Maladies  \"Its hard to think of many books for a general audience that have rendered any area of modern science and technology with such intelligence  accessibility  and compassionAn extraordinary achievement.\" Riveting  revelatory  and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life  and an essential preparation for the moral complexity introduced by our ability to create or \"write\" the human genome  The Gene is a must-read for everyone concerned about the definition and future of humanity. This is the most crucial science of our time  intimately explained by a master.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966482083893,"sku":"ByrdShop_1432837818","price":50.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781432837815.jpg?v=1770564043","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-gene-an-intimate-history","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}