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She Has Her Mother's Laugh

The Story of Heredity, Its Past, Present and Future


  • Picador (MacMillan)
  • by Carl Zimmer
She Has Her Mother's Laugh presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do precisely that. Gradually, people translated their old notions about heredity into a language of genes. As the technology for studying genes became cheaper, millions of people ordered genetic tests to lin

ISBN 9781509818556 | E | PB
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Publisher Picador (MacMillan)
ISBN 9781509818556
Author(s) Carl Zimmer
Publication date June 2019
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Pages 672
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do precisely that. Gradually, people translated their old notions about heredity into a language of genes. As the technology for studying genes became cheaper, millions of people ordered genetic tests to link themselves to missing parents, to distant ancestors, to ethnic identities.