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 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

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

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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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Anti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John Kaczynski

Technological Slavery by Theodore John Kaczynski

Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John Kaczynski

Sober Provocations and Perspectives

107 books — 36 voters

DNA / Genetic Tests in Fiction

21 books — 4 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez

Women in Science

326 books — 103 voters

Genetics for Non-Scientists

63 books — 53 voters

The Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul Ola

Functional Medicine

62 books — 41 voters

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Escape from the Laboratory!

38 books — 4 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Genetics”

“ 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

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“ 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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