The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins' revolutionary masterpiece arguing that natural selection operates primarily at the level of the individual gene rather than the organism, coining the concept of the meme.
Read Time: ~10.1 hr
The Gene: An Intimate History
by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2016)
About this book
The story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: the "gene," the fundamental unit of heredity, and the basic unit of all biological information. Siddhartha Mukherjee weaves science, social history, and personal narrative into an epic medical chronicle.
Setting / LocationGlobal Laboratories
Story EraMendel to Modern CRISPR
Protagonist / CoreThe Genome & The Scientists
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