The Gene

** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **<br/><br/>The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies.<br/><br/>The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader from Darwin’s groundbreaking theory of evolution, to the horrors of Nazi eugenics, to present day and beyond - as we learn to “read” and “write” the human genome that unleashes the potential to change the fates and identities of our children.<br/><br/>Majestic in its scope and ambition, The Gene provides us with a definitive account of the epic history of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans – and paints a fascinating vision of both humanity’s past and future.<br/><br/>For fans of Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking and Being Mortal by Atul Gwande.