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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Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health

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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters

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

Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

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

Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature

The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas

The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence

The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them

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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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Anti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John Kaczynski

Technological Slavery by Theodore John Kaczynski

Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez

Women in Science

363 books — 110 voters

The Evolution Of Desire by David M. Buss

Books Discussed On Mating Grounds Part II

101 books — 2 voters

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

Medical Microhistories

99 books — 94 voters

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The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

The Natural World: Natural Science and Natural History for Adults

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Quotes Tagged “Genetics”

“ A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not. ...more ”
― Octavia E. Butler, Dawn

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“ Did you splice my—DNA?” Hannah puts her hand on the side of his face and looks him square in the eyes. “Your girlfriend was kind enough to let me pull some marrow from her rib, Romeo. ”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

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