Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms.It is generally considered a field of biology, but it intersects frequently with many of the life sciences and is strongly linked with the study of information systems.

See also Science.
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why It Matters
The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie
I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever
The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You
Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
What Is Life?: Five Great Ideas in Biology
The Gene: An Intimate History
The Selfish Gene
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
The Epigenetics Revolution
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Double Helix
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
Anti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiTechnological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiHuman Diversity by Charles MurrayThe Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein
Sober Provocations and Perspectives
107 books — 36 voters
You Have a Match by Emma LordThe Truth Project by Dante MedemaThis Golden State by Marit WeisenbergTruth Be Told by Sue DivinLittle Pieces of Me by Alison Hammer
DNA / Genetic Tests in Fiction
21 books — 4 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootLab Girl by Hope JahrenSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonAlien Earths by Lisa KalteneggerInvisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez
Women in Science
326 books — 103 voters
The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGenome by Matt RidleyThe Violinist's Thumb by Sam KeanThe Double Helix by James D. WatsonThe Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Genetics for Non-Scientists
63 books — 53 voters

Gut by Giulia EndersThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases  by Paul OlaWired to Eat by Robb WolfAdrenal Fatigue by James L.  WilsonA Mind of Your Own by Kelly Brogan
Functional Medicine
62 books — 41 voters
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'BrienThe Plague Dogs by Richard  AdamsFirestarter by Stephen  KingFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyBarnabus by The Fan Brothers
Escape from the Laboratory!
38 books — 4 voters


Octavia E. Butler
A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not. ...more
Octavia E. Butler, Dawn

Daniel O'Malley
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. ...more
Daniel O'Malley, The Rook

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