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By: Book review – Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 14 Sep 2021 11:58:27 +0000

[…] river billions of years before reaching its headwaters” (p. 27). As he explained in-depth in She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, some twins merge early in development to become a human chimaera, giving rise to one person made […]

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By: Book review – A Planet of Viruses (Third Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:42:43 +0000

[…] this essay a taste of things to come in Zimmer’s new book Life’s Edge. And as he did in She Has Her Mother’s Laugh when discussing genetic mosaics, he can implode your sense of identity with a single sentence. When […]

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By: Book review – Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 08:08:02 +0000

[…] than nucleic acids were the carriers of hereditary information. Zimmer briefly mentioned this in She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, but Unravelling the Double Helix gives the full story. Four nucleic acids were simply thought not […]

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By: Book review – Superior: The Return of Race Science | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:01:37 +0000

[…] better humans the way you would breed livestock (some of this already came up in my reviews of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity and Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity). These ideas fed into the […]

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By: Book review – Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:24:43 +0000

[…] my recent review of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, I mentioned how the concept of heredity has become ever fuzzier the more we have learnt about how […]

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By: Book review – Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 26 Dec 2018 21:28:15 +0000

[…] in the end I found this to be a remarkable and thought-provoking book. Together with books such as She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity and The Genome Factor: What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, […]

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By: Book review – Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 13:16:30 +0000

[…] first saw this book mentioned in Zimmer’s recent book She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity. One narrative strand that ran through that book was the contribution of mental institutes to ideas […]

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By: Book review – Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 28 Sep 2018 08:16:19 +0000

[…] ribosomes so far – instead DNA gets all the love (see for example The Gene: An Intimate History, She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, or Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are). I am convinced that Ramakrishnan could have written a […]

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By: Book review – The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 12 Sep 2018 08:16:57 +0000

[…] I recently finished Carl Zimmer’s new book She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity, I noticed there was one mechanism of heredity he mentioned only ever so briefly: horizontal gene […]

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