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Siddhartha Mukherjee: The Gene (Hardcover, 2016, Scribner) 4 stars

The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 …

Review of 'The Gene' on Goodreads

4 stars

Good pop-sci writing by a knowledgeable scientist, covers a lot of historical ground while giving a fair sense of the process of discovery and debate, with recurring space for the eugenics ethical pitfalls in each era, and then turns to what and how we can attribute aspects of humanity (race, gender, sexuality) to genetics, with useful caveats.