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The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
5.0

A comprehensive and important epic of how we know what we know about our fundamental makeup. To read and truly digest this book is to begin to fathom not only the possibilities of gene manipulation, but to realize the foundations have already been built and the structure above is eminent.

Mukherjee has once again concisely encapsulated a seemingly imposible topic into a beautiful and harrowing book.

“Here too fitness cannot be judged in absolutes. Rather the lack of fitness in colloquial terms, was defined by the relative mismatch of an organism with its environment.”