- Heredity, Genetics, New York Times reviewed, Human genetics
Celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it.
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Spare, earnest, classical in form and contemporary.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Carl Zimmer
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, Dutton
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781101984598
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