Review
“Matt Ridley [writes] with a combination of biblical awe, scientific curiosity and wit about what many consider the greatest scientific breakthrough of the 20th century and the greatest technological challenge of the 21st: the discovery of the molecular basis of life and its many applications in medicine, law, and commerce.” — Dallas Morning News
“Ridley is a lucid, engaging and enthusiastic guide to the double-helical DNA that comprises our inheritable human essence.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A lucid and exhilarating romp through our 23 human chromosomes that lets us see how nature and nature combine to make us human.” — James Watson
“A superb writer whose exquisite, often moving descriptions of life’s designs remind me of the best work of the late Lewis Thomas. . . . He crafts some of the clearest explanations of complex biological processes that I have encountered. . . . He captures their slippery beauty.” — Washington Post Book World
“With riveting anecdotes, clever analogies and compelling writing, Matt Ridley makes the human genome come alive for us. I was left in awe at the wonder of the human body, and the scientists who unravel its mysteries.” — Abraham Verghese, author of The Tennis Partner
“A tour de force: clear, witty, timely, and informed by an intelligence that sees new knowledge as a blessing and not a curse.” — London Times
“A jargon-free excursion of intellectual discovery that will carry any reader along its tour of exciting, often delightful, stories structured to help us understand in everyday terms, and to remember, the revelations about genetic evolution that have come to light in the last few decades. It also makes us see the enormous social and political consequences of that knowledge.” — New York Times Book Review
“A fascinating tour of the human genome…If you want to catch a glimpse of the biotech century that is now dawning…GENOME is an excellent place to start.” — Wall Street Journal
About the Author
Matt Ridley received his BA and D Phil at Oxford researching the evolution of behaviour. He has been science editor, Washington correspondent and American editor of The Economist. He has a regular column in the Daily Telegraph. He is also the author of The Red Queen (1993) and The Origins of Virtue (1996). Matt Ridley is currently the chairman of The International Centre for Life.
Product details
- ISBN-13: 9781857028355
- Publisher: Harper Collins
- Published: March 2000
- Pages: 352
- Binding: Paperback
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