lauuwz 's review for:

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

3.0

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Mukherjee has a flair, in my opinion, for using the banal details of personal experience to explain complex scientific concepts. Why then, only three stars? His history of genetics is a familiar one--less intimate than advertised. Most students of genetics will be very familiar with these voices and benchmarks. All readers will be better served just reading his two New Yorker articles that reference the same source material.