![]() I took science courses in school, but have not made a study out of science. I have an interest in science, but I am not a professional in a scientific field. I find myself unable to put the book down because I want to know what comes next. He has taken a serious, dense scientific topic captured history, terminology, facts, and figures and presented it in an incredibly approachable, readable way. That is my testimonial to Siddhartha Mukherjee's writing. I feel like I have read both a textbook and an epic adventure tale. ![]() I feel like I have taken a journey through time, place, and my own life. I am exhausted! I have just spent the last two days furiously reading this book. It is far too much to ask ourselves to escape the orbit of this logic, but recognizing its inherent circularity, and being skeptical of its overreach, might protect the week from the will of the strong, and the 'mutant' from being annihilated by the 'normal'." This self-fulfilling circle of logic is responsible for some of the most magnificent and evocative qualities in our species, but also some of the most reprehensible. And human history has, in turn, selected genomes that carry these impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires. The impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires that drive human history are, at least in part, encoded in the human genome. Favorite Quote: "History repeats itself, in part because the genome repeats itself. And the genome repeats itself, in part because history does. ![]()
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