Unit - Part I: A Stroke on the Cheek Chapter - 1: The Light Trifle of His Substance Chapter - 2: Traveling Across the Face of Time Chapter - 3: This Race Should End with Them Chapter - 4: Attagirl Unit - Part II: Wayward DNA Chapter - 5: An Evening’s Revelry Chapter - 6: The Sleeping Branches Chapter - 7: Individual Z Chapter - 8: Mongrels Chapter - 9: Nine Foot High Complete Chapter - 10: Ed and Fred Unit - Part III: Other Channels Chapter - 11: Ex Ovo Omnia Chapter - 12: Witches’- Broom Chapter - 13: Chimeras Unit - Part IV: Other Channels Chapter - 14: You, My Friend, Are a Wonderland Chapter - 15: Flowering Monsters Chapter - 16: The Teachable Ape Unit - Part V: The Sun Chariot Chapter - 17: Yet Did He Greatly Dare Chapter - 18: Orphaned at Conception Chapter - 19: The Planet’s Heirs
Award-winning, celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a history of our understanding of heredity in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society - a force set to shape our future even more radically.
Carl Zimmer reports from the frontiers of biology, where scientists
are expanding our understanding of life. Since 2013 he has been a
columnist at the New York Times. He is a popular speaker at
universities, medical schools, museums, and festivals, and he is
also a frequent on radio programmes such as Radiolab and This
American Life. In 2016, Zimmer won the Stephen Jay Gould Prize,
awarded annually by the Society for the Study of Evolution to
recognize individuals whose sustained efforts have advanced public
understanding of evolutionary science.
Zimmer is the author of a dozen books about science, on subjects
ranging from viruses to neuroscience to evolution.
Beautifully written . . . [A] grand and sweeping book.
*The Times*
Nuanced, entertaining and balances eloquent story-telling with
well-researched science . . . Anyone interested in their path
through history, and what they may hand on, will find much to
excite them.
*New Scientist*
Fascinating . . . Absorbing . . . Deftly persuasive.
*Observer*
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh is packed full of learning, and years of
work . . . The book offers clear insights into a fast-moving area,
and asks big questions. Scientists can eradicate diseases, alter
DNA and change human heredity. Should they? What could be at stake
if they get it wrong?
*Guardian*
This is cutting-edge stuff that could be heavy-going except that it
is written by Carl Zimmer, one of our best science journalists . .
. He makes complex topics accessible with his sparkling
storytelling and beautiful writing . . . If you want to . . . know
where the DNA revolution is headed, you can’t do better than this
book, which is a joy to read.
*Evening Standard*
She Has Her Mother's Laugh is a masterpiece – a career-best work
from one of the world's premier science writers, on a topic that
literally touches every person on the planet.
*Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes*
Zimmer is a born story-teller. Or is he an inherited story-teller?
The inspiring and heartbreaking stories in She Has Her Mother's
Laugh build a fundamentally new perspective on what previous
generations have delivered to us, and what we can pass along. An
outstanding book and great accomplishment.
*Daniel Levitin, author of This is Your Brain on Music and The
Organized Mind*
Extraordinary . . . This book is Zimmer at his best: obliterating
misconceptions about science with gentle prose.
*New York Review of Books*
Expansive, engrossing, and often enlightening.
*Wired*
Why do children look like their parents and siblings, but still
differ from one another? . . . Engrossing . . . Zimmer’s book is an
excellent way to get up to speed.
*Washington Post*
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh is at once far-ranging, imaginative, and
totally relevant. Carl Zimmer makes the complex science of heredity
read like a novel, and explains why the subject has been–and always
will be–so vexed.
*Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Pulitzer Prize winner The Sixth
Extinction*
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh is a superb guide to a subject that is
only becoming more important. Along the way, it explains some
remarkably complicated science with equally remarkable clarity–a
totally impressive job all around.
*Charles C. Mann, author of New York Times bestseller
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus*
No one unravels the mysteries of science as brilliantly and
compellingly as Carl Zimmer, and he has proven it again with She
Has Her Mother’s Laugh—a sweeping, magisterial book that
illuminates the very nature of who we are.
*David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author, award-winning
staff writer at The New Yorker, and author of The Lost
City of Z*
A thoroughly enchanting tour of big questions, oddball ideas, and
dazzling accomplishments of researchers searching to explain,
manipulate, and alter inheritance.
*Kirkus Reviews (starred review)*
A magnificent work . . . Journalist Zimmer masterfully blends
exciting storytelling with first-rate science reporting. His book
is as engrossing as it is enlightening.
*Publishers Weekly (starred review)*
Fascinating . . . The book handles science and cultural history
with equal verve and nuance; a rare combination.
*Sunday Times*
Elegantly written, wittily constructed . . . My science book of the
year.
*Observer*
Genetics was once a deeply unfashionable – even suspect area of
scientific research. But the subject produced some fine works in
2018, the best of which is the remarkable She Has Her Mother's
Laugh.
*Prospect*
Carl Zimmer takes us from tailless mice to transgenic mice as he
charts how humans first understood, then mastered, genetics.
*The Times*
[A] panoramic survey of the notion of heredity . . . a guide to
what it is, what it means and what comes next . . . [Zimmer's]
storytelling is excellent.
*Sunday Times*
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