Summary
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author draws on his scientific knowledge and research to describe the magisterial history of a scientific idea, the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans; that governs our form, function, and fate; and that determines the future of... Full description
- Prologue: Families
- "The missing science of heredity" 1865-1935
- "In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts" 1930-1970
- "The dreams of geneticists" 1970-2001
- "The proper study of mankind is man" 1970-2005
- Through the looking glass 2001-2015
- Post-genome 2015-...
- Epilogue: Bheda, Abheda.