A review by jakeyjake
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.0

Thorough and thoughtful. Perhaps I biased myself because of the order I read them in, but of the three books I read this summer on genetics I enjoyed the other two more (Adam Rutherford's A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived was by far the most interesting, and Carl Zimmer's She Has Her Mother's Laugh was also well written).

There were details that Mukherjee brought in that the other two didn't, and Mukherjee addressed some of the ethical considerations in a bit more detail. Overall, a very good book on the history and current state of genetics.