A review by girl_in_glasses
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code by Sam Kean

4.0

If you're in the mood for expanding your mind and interested in genetics, or even just evolutionary science, definitely take a look at this book. Fascinating stories about the men and women behind the research and what we now think of as "common knowledge" about DNA and chromosomes.

Fun fact: we all carry genes that allow us to digest human tissue due to cannibalism in our ancient, or even rather recent, evolutionary past.