The Gene
An Intimate History
Ranked #1 in Genetics, Ranked #2 in Bioinformatics — see more rankings.
Entrelazando ciencia, historia y vivencias personales, Mukherjee hace un recorrido por el nacimiento, el crecimiento, la influencia y el futuro de una de las ideas más poderosas y peligrosas de la historia de la ciencia: el gen, la unidad fundamental de la herencia, y la unidad básica de toda la información biológica. Desde Aristóteles y Pitágoras, pasando por los descubrimientos relegados de Mendel, la revolución de... more
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Bill Gates CEO/Microsoft"Mukherjee wrote this book for a lay audience, because he knows that the new genome technologies are at the cusp of affecting us all in profound ways," Gates wrote. Mukherjee is what Gates calls a "quadruple threat." He's a practicing physician, teacher, researcher, and author. (Source)
Amit Paranjape @vikramsathaye @DrSidMukherjee @kiranshaw Great book. (Source)
Bryan Johnson A great book. (Source)
Rankings by Category
The Gene is ranked in the following categories:
- #56 in Anthropology
- #97 in Behavior
- #3 in Biochemistry
- #8 in Biology
- #5 in Biotechnology
- #3 in Cell Biology
- #36 in Diseases
- #18 in Evolution
- #2 in Genomics
- #65 in Health
- #15 in History Of Science
- #57 in Information
- #68 in Intellectual
- #6 in Internal Medicine
- #87 in Knowledge
- #12 in Life Sciences
- #26 in Medical
- #11 in Medicine
- #5 in Molecular Biology
- #4 in Pathology
- #29 in Popular Science
- #74 in Public Health
- #23 in STEM
- #18 in Science
- #36 in Science and Math
- #26 in Scientific
- #63 in World History
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