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The Gene: An Intimate History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 56,351 ratings — published 2016
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 193,995 ratings — published 1976
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 28,162 ratings — published 1999
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 12,227 ratings — published 2016
The Epigenetics Revolution (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 115 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,477 ratings — published 2011
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,459 ratings — published 2018
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,145 ratings — published 2018
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 811,228 ratings — published 2010
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,662 ratings — published 2001
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.28 — 41,657 ratings — published 2021
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,545 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 77 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 10,919 ratings — published 2012
The Double Helix (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,159 ratings — published 1968
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
by (shelved 61 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,616 ratings — published 1982
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
by (shelved 59 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 598,448 ratings — published 2013
Next (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.54 — 77,655 ratings — published 2006
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,256 ratings — published 2003
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,936 ratings — published 1986
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,813 ratings — published 2019
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,349 ratings — published 2018
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 115,394 ratings — published 2010
DNA: The Secret of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,835 ratings — published 2002
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,972 ratings — published 2003
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,279,979 ratings — published 2011
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 56,314 ratings — published 2009
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 — 1,648 ratings — published 2014
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,358 ratings — published 1993
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,144 ratings — published 2008
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,299 ratings — published 2022
The 10000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,860 ratings — published 2009
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,712 ratings — published 2020
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,745 ratings — published 2020
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,132 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 Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,620 ratings — published 2002
Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,105 ratings — published 2015
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,456 ratings — published 2014
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,174 ratings — published 2006
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,799 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 — 2,200 ratings — published 2006
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,579 ratings — published 2021
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,579 ratings — published 2014
Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,063 ratings — published 2002
Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.88 — 706 ratings — published 2006
The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 925 ratings — published 2021
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 122,671 ratings — published 1859
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives—and Our Lives Change Our Genes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,740 ratings — published 2014
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,774 ratings — published 2005
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,592 ratings — published 2018
Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as genetics)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,754 ratings — published 2005
“Don't tell me from genetics. What've they got to do with it?" said Crowley. "Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you're going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he'll grow up to be a demon just because his dad _became_ one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“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
