Genome: The Autobiography of a Species In 23 Chapters Audiobook (Free)

The genome’s been mapped.

But what does it mean?

Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping from the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions since it answers. Queries that will profoundly impact just how we think about disease, about durability, and about free of charge will. Queries that will impact the rest you will ever have.

Genome offers extraordinary insight into the effects of this incredible breakthrough. By picking one newly found out gene from each pair of chromosomes and informing its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our types and its ancestors from the dawn of life towards the brink of potential medicine. From Huntington’s disease to tumor, in the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Matt Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping from the genome. It will help you realize what this technological milestone opportinity for you, for your children, as well as for humankind.