Status Updates From The Gene: An Intimate History

"If reproduction failed to produce variants or if heredity failed to transmit variations - then ... the cogwheels of evolution jammed. For Darwin's theory to work, heredity had to possess constancy and inconstancy, stability and mutation"

"Natural selection was not operating on organisms but on their units of heredity. A chicken, de Vries realised, was merely an egg's way of making a better egg"

There are two ways to tell this story. One is the Matt Ridley way - a gentleman scholar and friend, who wants to show you how amazing the world of genetics is.
And another the Siddhartha Mukherjee way - a philosopher scholar, an insider, but most importantly a storyteller par excellence, narrating it as the single most important story of all our lives!