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She Has Her Mother's Laugh by Carl Zimmer [Zimmer, Carl] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society—a force set to shape our future even more radically.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. . . .But, Zimmer writes, "Each of us carries an amalgam of fragments of DNA, stitched together from some of...

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Author

Carl Zimmer [Zimmer, Carl]

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2018

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Social_sciences