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El gen / The Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Title
El gen / The Gene: An Intimate History - Una historia personal
Author
Siddhartha Mukherjee
format
Hardback
Publisher
Debate
Language
Spanish
UK Publication Date
20170627

Description

Magnfico, necesario y absorbente, Siddhartha Mukherjee, ganador del Premio Pulitzer por El emperador de todos los males, ha escrito una extraordinaria biografa del gen y una respuesta a una de las cuestiones ms relevantes del futuro: Qu significa ser humano cuando se es capaz de manipular la informacin gentica?

La historia de cmo hemos descifrado el cdigo fuente que nos hace humanos abarca todo el planeta y varios siglos -y probablemente defina el futuro que nos espera.

Entrelazando ciencia, historia y vivencias personales, Mukherjee hace un recorrido por el nacimiento, el crecimiento, la influencia y el futuro de una de las ideas ms poderosas y peligrosas de la historia de la ciencia: el gen, la unidad fundamental de la herencia, y la unidad bsica de toda la informacin biolgica. Desde Aristteles y Pitgoras, pasando por los descubrimientos relegados de Mendel, la revolucin de Darwin, Watson y Franklin, hasta los avances ms innovadores llevados a cabo en nuestro siglo, este libro nos recuerda cmo la gentica nos afecta a todos cada da.

Reseas:
Esta quiz sea la mejor historia de suspense jams contada, una bsqueda de milenios dirigida por mil exploradores, de Aristteles a Mendel a Francis Collins, tras el enigma en el centro de cada clula. Como El emperador de todos los males, El gen es prodigiosa, torrencial y finalmente transcendente. Si te interesa en qu consiste ser humano hoy y en todos los maanas que vengan, tienes que leer este libro.
Anthony Doerr, autor de La luz que no puedes ver

El gen es una magnfica sntesis de la ciencia de la vida, y nos obliga a enfrentarnos con el ncleo de esa ciencia, as como con los retos ticos y filosficos a nuestra idea de en qu consiste ser humano.
Paul Berg, Premio Nobel de Qumica

Magnfico... La historia del gen se ha contado por trozos de distintas maneras, pero nunca con la perspectiva y la grandeza que Mukherjee aporta a su historia.
James Gleick, New York Times Book ReviewENGLISH DESCRIPTION

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post and Seattle Times Best Book of the YearFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies-a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick" (Elle)."Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost" (The New York Times). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices."Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories.[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry" (The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee's own family-with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness-reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation-from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome."A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are-and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future" (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. "The Gene is a book we all should read" (USA TODAY).

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