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Which of these books would you prefer to read and discuss in February?

Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2016.

I'd like to know what members think about some ideas about the group reads:
There have been many good books that we miss every month. So far, we've only chosen one book each month. I wonder if there can be a more effective solution:
All members who have or will read some books and are willing to share anything about the books will be featured in our newsletter. I will open the thread and let these members lead the discussions.

We will open each discussion for 2-4 weeks. I hope we'll be able to cover all books this way.

What do you think?

Andreas wrote: "Which of these books would you prefer to read and discuss in February?

Junk DNA: A Journey Through the Dark Matter of the Genome
[book:The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in ..."

I'd prefer The Invention of Nature:

Well noted. Thank you Bette. That one has caught my interest as well since December.

The Invention of Nature. Would love to know more about Alexander von Humboldt.

Gotcha!

The Invention of Nature.

I'm interested in all of them, but will definitely be reading The Invention of Nature. If the group chooses another, I'll try to fit it in, too.

I am reading The Invention of Nature now, and it is not as good as I had hoped, but it is still educational. So I would be fine with having the Invention of Nature picked, but I would also like to vote for Junk DNA. It sounds very interesting.

I would like to read The Invention of Nature as well.

Junk DNA has been on my list for quite some time now, but I doubt its content as I'm not sure that we have advanced the science of epigenetics and noncoding DNA. The question in my mind was: why the "dark matter" phrase?

Is it the dark matter as in physics?

Has anyone read the book?

from Wikipedia: Biological dark matter is an informal term for genetic material or microorganisms that are unclassified or poorly understood.

Biological dark matter includes non-coding DNA (junk DNA) and non-coding RNA

From an article of that title in MIT Technology Review: "...the mystery has become known as the “missing heritability�� problem. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, has sometimes made grudging reference to the “dark matter of the genome”—an analogy to the vast quantities of invisible mass in the universe that astrophysicists have inferred but have struggled for decades to find. .."

I am new to this group... I favor Junk DNA.

Thank you, Nola for the information.
It looks like we can have two books for February.

We very much welcome you to the group, Francoamerican. I hope you'll enjoy our discussions.

Shall we close the poll on January 15?
So, we'll have two books for February.
If a member wants to read and discuss "The four dimensional human" we will discuss it too.

Works for me.