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.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Genetics"

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins

The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them

Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

Mom Genes: Inside the New Science of Our Ancient Maternal Instinct

Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature

Beyond Inheritance: Our Ever-Mutating Cells and a New Understanding of Health

How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas

The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life

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Genetics Books

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

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 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 Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

Medical Microhistories

100 books — 95 voters

Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb Tsipursky

The Blindspots Between Us by Gleb Tsipursky

Viruses, the Brain, and Human Civilization

50 books — 41 voters

Fiction with Genetic Engineering themes

71 books — 33 voters

Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford

Human Population Genetics

68 books — 16 voters

Behavioral Genetics by Valerie S. Knopik

Behavioral Genetics

21 books — 4 voters

DNA / Genetic Tests in Fiction

23 books — 5 voters

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― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

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“ The truth has a way of coming out of the closet. ”
― March Lions, The Last Sunset

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