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Just finished Matt Ridley's book Genome, which is billed as an "autobiography of a species in 23 chapters." The book format follows our 23 chromosomal pairs, focusing on a human characteristic in each chapter that is related to a particular chromosome.

The book has been out a few years, so many of you may have read it, but if you haven't I highly recommend it. Basic genetic literacy is becoming what basic geographic literacy has been for 150 years—basic knowledge needed for everyday understanding.

Steve Yastrow posted this on 01/12/06.

Comments

I agree about the literacy marker in genetics. There are a lot of safe health advances using human growth hormone precursors and testosterone / estrogen therapy.

Watch out for those wacky South Koreans though and their "stem cell science" - psuedo voodoo Asian avian wackoos.

Posted by Sean at January 12, 2006 9:42 AM

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Posted by gutek at January 12, 2006 3:23 PM

"Basic genetic literacy is becoming what basic geographic literacy has been for 150 yearsâ€”basic knowledge needed for everyday understanding."

Excellent point ... I think you've started an idea for a post on my own blog! I agree entirely, very well put.

Posted by Daniel M. Harrison at January 16, 2006 6:47 AM

"Basic genetic literacy is becoming what basic geographic literacy has been for 150 yearsâ€”basic knowledge needed for everyday understanding."

NONSENSE - the general public needs to understand which gene affects which behaviour as much as they need to understand which ms dos codes affect the funtioning of their computer!

Posted by science consultant at January 18, 2006 11:27 AM

I had dinner with Matt Ridley a wee while ago. Nice guy. Very smart.

Posted by hugh macleod at January 20, 2006 11:22 AM