Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms.It is generally considered a field of biology, but it intersects frequently with many of the life sciences and is strongly linked with the study of information systems.

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The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas

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How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

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Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct

The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology

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Genetics Books

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

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

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)

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Genetics for Non-Scientists

66 books — 57 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Modern Science Nonfiction

453 books — 307 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Genetics in Science Fiction

220 books — 181 voters

The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul Ola

Best Books On the Origins of Life

37 books — 24 voters

Molecular Biology of the Gene by James D. Watson

Open Syllabus Genetics Books

113 books — 2 voters

Beyond the Fountain of Youth by Julian Robert Gershon Jr.

The End of Alzheimer's by Dale E. Bredesen

Healthy Aging

398 books — 122 voters

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― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

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“ The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research. ”
― Wilhelm Johannsen

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