El gen : una historia personal
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Chamorro, Joaquín, translator.
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Barcelona : Debate/Penguin Random House Grupo Editiorial, 2017.
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Book
Edition
Primera edición.
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698 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Main Library - Adult / Spanish
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Published
Barcelona : Debate/Penguin Random House Grupo Editiorial, 2017.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Spanish

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-648) and index.
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La historia de cómo hemos descifrado el código 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 más poderosas y peligrosas de la historia de la ciencia: el gen, la unidad fundamental de la herencia, y la unidad básica de toda la información biológica. Desde Aristóteles y Pitágoras, pasando por los descubrimientos relegados de Mendel, la revolución de Darwin, Watson y Franklin, hasta los avances más innovadores llevados a cabo en nuestro siglo, este libro nos recuerda cómo la genética nos afecta a todos cada día. Magnífico, necesario y absorbente, Siddhartha Mukherjee, ganador del Premio Pullitzer por El emperador de todos los males, ha escrito una extraordinaria"biografía"del gen y una respuesta a una de las cuestiones más relevantes del futuro: ¿Qué significa ser humano cuando se es capaz de manipular la información genética?
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The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where Gregor Mendel, a monk working with pea plants, stumbles on the idea of a "unit of heredity." It intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution, and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms postwar biology. It invades discourses concerning race and identity and provides startling answers to some of the most potent questions coursing through our political and cultural realms. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, gender identity, sexual orientation, temperament, choice, and free will, thus raising the most urgent questions affecting our personal realms. Above all, the story of the gene is driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds -- from Mendel and Darwin to Francis Crick, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin to the thousands of scientists working today to understand the code of codes. Woven through the book is the story of author Mukherjee's own family and its recurring pattern of schizophrenia, a haunting reminder that the science of genetics is not confined to the laboratory but is vitally relevant to everyday lives. The moral complexity of genetics reverberates even more urgently today as we learn to "read" and "write" the human genome -- unleashing the potential to change the fates and identities of our children and our children's children.

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