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.

See also Science.
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New Releases Tagged "Genetics"

Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health
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
Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health
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
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Selfish Gene
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
The Epigenetics Revolution
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 Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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 Double Helix
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
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Sober Provocations and Perspectives
107 books — 35 voters
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Women in Science
363 books — 110 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Medical Microhistories
99 books — 94 voters



Octavia E. Butler
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

Joseph A. Anderson
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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