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 Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

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

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

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

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

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas

This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown

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

How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain

Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

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

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

The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix

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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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Fiction with Genetic Engineering themes

70 books — 32 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte

She Has Her Mother's Laugh by Carl Zimmer

The Smithsonian's 10 Best Science Books of 2018

10 books — 5 voters

The Dressmaker's Mirror by Susan Weiss Liebman

Genetics and Genomics for the General Reader

130 books — 8 voters

Endlich schmerzfrei mit Trigger-Osteopraktik by Wolfgang Bauermeister

Beyond the Fountain of Youth by Julian Robert Gershon Jr.

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

Functional Medicine

95 books — 88 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

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Science Writing By People of Marginalized Genders

261 books — 99 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Genetics”

“ If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic exchange between them. ...more ”
― Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

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“ 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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