The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

608 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies. The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader from Darwin’s groundbreaking theory of e...

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informative 98%
reflective 49%
challenging 48%
inspiring 20%
hopeful 6%
emotional 5%
adventurous 4%
tense 3%
lighthearted 2%
relaxing 2%
funny 1%

Pace

slow 65%
medium 33%

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4.32

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