Genetics

Genetics is the study of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms.It is generally considered a field of biology, but it intersects frequently with many of the life sciences and is strongly linked with the study of information systems.

See also Science.
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference
The A List (Ali Reynolds, #14)
I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
The Quantum Garden (The Quantum Evolution, #2)
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe
The Better Half: On the Genetic Superiority of Women
How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
The Orphans of Davenport: Eugenics, the Great Depression, and the War over Children's Intelligence
The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir
The Selfish Gene
The Gene: An Intimate History
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
The Epigenetics Revolution
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Double Helix
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)
Daughter of Family G by Ami McKayThe Bright Hour by Nina RiggsResurrection Lily by Amy Byer ShainmanThe Genome Defense by Jorge L. ContrerasProbably Someday Cancer (Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series) by Kim Horner
BRCA/Hereditary Cancer Books
28 books — 4 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootStiff by Mary RoachThe Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha MukherjeeThe Great Influenza by John M. BarryThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
Medical Microhistories
94 books — 98 voters

Anti-Tech Revolution by Theodore J. KaczynskiTechnological Slavery by Theodore J. KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore J. KaczynskiHuman Diversity by Charles MurrayThe Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein
Sober Provocations and Perspectives
106 books — 33 voters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah HarariGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonA Brief History of Time by Stephen HawkingCollapse by Jared Diamond
Big History
261 books — 110 voters

Brave New World by Aldous HuxleyDune by Frank HerbertMiddlegame by Seanan McGuireTo Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky  ChambersBeggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
Fiction books with eugenics
14 books — 10 voters


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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic exchange between them. ...more
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