A review by miguelf
The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being by Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Roger Highfield

3.0

This really could have used the guidance of a strong editor to turn what unfortunately turned out to be a clumsy book into one that would have offered better insight into cell biology and earl fetal development. The author is clearly knowledgeable in their subject, but there’s not as much background needed on the topic to offer to the lay reader before diving in to details that aren’t well explained. The personal info could easily have been jettisoned to amplify the science. There also seems to be a bit of inside baseball with which journal would and wouldn’t publish findings and who in the field did and didn’t support the new theories that feels superfluous.