znorgaard 's review for:

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.0

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A solid overview and history of our understanding of genes. There are some ugly truths presented that help emphasize the moral quandaries we face with our newest gene editing technologies. Some of the topics are clearly over simplified for a general audience, but the core message is good. Mukherjee does spend a lot of time talking about the genetics of intelligence and supposedly his understanding is a little out of date, but I can't confirm this without doing a little more research. He does attribute a little too much power to epigentics (most of which is reset between each generation), relying on a study of the Dutch famine where he fails to note strong alternative explanations.