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I listened to the BBC abridged audio book as I often do before ordering it. I like hardbacks so I try and be sure first I want to read it. I didn't like it enough. I loved The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer but couldn't feel that deep interest with this one.
Now it could be that the book is fantastic and it had a lousy editor at the BBC. Oliver Sacks autobiography, On the Move: A Life is a 10 star book, but the abridged BBC one is terrible, mostly the wrong episodes chosen. But st ...more
Now it could be that the book is fantastic and it had a lousy editor at the BBC. Oliver Sacks autobiography, On the Move: A Life is a 10 star book, but the abridged BBC one is terrible, mostly the wrong episodes chosen. But st ...more
Well-written and easy to understand book about a complex subject. Everyone should find this a fascinating read because it starts with the history of scientists� discovery, growing understanding, and moves to the present and future of genetics.
Reading this book, leaves one with the feeling that this is the cutting edge scientific field young scientists would want to work in because there is so much to be done to enchanted our understanding of the powerful role genes play in mankind’s destiny.
Reading this book, leaves one with the feeling that this is the cutting edge scientific field young scientists would want to work in because there is so much to be done to enchanted our understanding of the powerful role genes play in mankind’s destiny.
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