The Gene An Intimate History
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Erscheinungsdatum
02.05.2017
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Scribner Book CompanySeitenzahl
608
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23,3/15,4/4,5 cm
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653 g
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Englisch
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978-1-4767-3352-4
The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle).
"Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself." –Ken Burns
“Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” ( The New York Times). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.
“Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” ( The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.
“A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” ( Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “ The Gene is a book we all should read” ( USA TODAY).
The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle).
"Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself." –Ken Burns
“Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” ( The New York Times). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.
“Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” ( The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome.
“A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” ( Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “ The Gene is a book we all should read” ( USA TODAY).
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English: Detailed and eye-opening/Deutsch: Detailliert und augenöffnend
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English: Mukherjee offers deep insight into the history of genetics as a whole. From its ancient beginnings as the musings of philosophers about the storage of information necessary for the construction of an organism, through the horrors of the movements of eugenicists in the United States of America and the National Socialist German Workers' Party during the Nazi regime, right through the present state of genetics at the time of "The Gene"'s release, up to possible directions the field might take in the future, Mukherjee paints a picture of genetics that is as interesting and enlightening to read for a student of biology to put the history of a multitude of innovations and discoveries into perspective, as it probably will be for someone who is not already acquainted with some of the terminology used, as it all is explained in simple terms and not used excessively, while fitting pieces of an expertly told personal family history's narrative into the mix. A great book for anyone showing interest in the history of genetics, as well as some processes that helped define the field as it is today.
Deutsch: Mukherjee bietet einen tiefen Einblick in die vollständige Geschichte der Genetik. Von ihren antiken Anfängen als Grübelein von Philosophen über das Speichern von Information, die nötig ist, um einen Organismus zu bilden, durch die Schrecken der Bewegungen der Eugeniker in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei während des Nazi-Regimes, direkt durch den heutigen Stand der Genetik zum Zeitpunkt der Veröffentlichung von "The Gene", hindurch, bis hin zu möglichen Richtungen, die das Forschungsfeld in der Zukunft einschlagen könnte, malt Mukherjee ein Bild, das so interessant und erleuchtend für eine*n Biologiestudent*in zu lesen ist, um die Geschichte einer Vielfalt von Neuerungen und Entdeckungen in Perspektive zu stellen, wie es das wahrscheinlich auch für eine Person ist, die nicht schon vorab mit der verwendeten Terminologie vertraut ist, da diese in einfachen Worten erklärt und nicht exzessiv gebraucht wird, während Stücke einer hervorragend erzählten Familiengeschichte in die Mischung gepasst werden. Ein großartiges Buch für jede Person, die Interesse an der Geschichte der Genetik zeigt und an einigen Prozessen, die das Forschungsfeld, wie es heute ist, definiert haben.
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