![]() Through Mukherjee’s eyes, we glimpse into the monastery life of Gregor Johann Mendel in Brno, credited to be the founder of the modern science of genetics. ![]() The book being arranged chronologically and thematically makes it easy to go back to excerpts that one will find fascinating to re-read. By broaching upon the streak of mental illness that runs in the paternal side of his family, he urges the reader to contemplate on the genes that are the blueprint of all living beings, orchestrating many of our own behaviour and illnesses. The way the writer introduces the protagonist – the gene – to the reader is interesting. This book on the history of genes is engrossing to the layman and scientist alike. To students of science, it is like a trip down memory lane, coming face to face with the scientists and researchers that have sat inanimate inside textbooks. ‘The Gene – an intimate history’ by Siddhartha Mukherjee comes a long way in setting the record straight about the concept of genes and its nature. The only role of the mother was to provide nourishment to the growing foetus. ![]() This information was transmitted into the female’s body during intercourse and once inside the womb, it matured into a foetus. ![]() The Greek philosopher and mystic Pythagoras popularized the idea that hereditary information (“likeness”) was carried by male semen. ![]()
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