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The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 275 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,331 ratings — published 2016
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 273 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,064 ratings — published 1976
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,391 ratings — published 1999
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,441 ratings — published 2016
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 116 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,514 ratings — published 2011
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,577 ratings — published 2018
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,265 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 820,695 ratings — published 2010
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,693 ratings — published 2001
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.28 — 42,304 ratings — published 2021
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,638 ratings — published 2017
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 79 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 11,060 ratings — published 2012
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,267 ratings — published 1968
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 61 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,662 ratings — published 1982
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 603,615 ratings — published 2013
Next (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.54 — 78,123 ratings — published 2006
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,266 ratings — published 2003
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,842 ratings — published 2019
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 42,217 ratings — published 1986
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,381 ratings — published 2018
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 117,087 ratings — published 2010
DNA: The Secret of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,844 ratings — published 2002
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,985 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,304,465 ratings — published 2011
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,337 ratings — published 2022
The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,652 ratings — published 2014
The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,869 ratings — published 2009
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,774 ratings — published 2009
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,581 ratings — published 2008
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,418 ratings — published 1993
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
by (shelved 33 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,778 ratings — published 2020
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,795 ratings — published 2020
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,630 ratings — published 2002
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,318 ratings — published 2013
DNA USA: A Genetic Biography of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.54 — 756 ratings — published 2011
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,178 ratings — published 2006
Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,111 ratings — published 2015
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,494 ratings — published 2014
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,942 ratings — published 2004
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,219 ratings — published 2006
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,617 ratings — published 2021
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,589 ratings — published 2014
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,065 ratings — published 2002
Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 708 ratings — published 2006
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 123,785 ratings — published 1859
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,660 ratings — published 2018
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives—and Our Lives Change Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,748 ratings — published 2014
The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.24 — 941 ratings — published 2021
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,827 ratings — published 2005
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,774 ratings — published 2005
“I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.
Oh, so that we share, thought Myfanwy, but you didn't inherit the power to make people shit themselves. You've got to love the randomness of genetics.”
― The Rook
Oh, so that we share, thought Myfanwy, but you didn't inherit the power to make people shit themselves. You've got to love the randomness of genetics.”
― The Rook
“Soon after Harris’s HeLa-chicken study, a pair of researchers at New York University discovered that human-mouse hybrids lost their human chromosomes over time, leaving only the mouse chromosomes. This allowed scientists to begin mapping human genes to specific chromosomes by tracking the order in which genetic traits vanished. If a chromosome disappeared and production of a certain enzyme stopped, researchers knew the gene for that enzyme must be on the most recently vanished chromosome. Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today.”
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
― The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
