Why it endured
Matt Ridley uses 23 chapters — one per chromosome — to tell the story of what our genome reveals about human life, disease, evolution, and free will. A masterful synthesis of the science of heredity.
What they're saying
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Andrej KarpathyAI researcher & former Tesla AI Director
“4/5”
Naval RavikantEntrepreneur & philosopher
“Matt had a bigger influence on pulling me into science, and a love of science, than almost any other author. His first book that I read was called Genome. I must have six or seven dog-eared copies of it lying around in various boxes. It helped me define what life is, how it works, why it’s important, and placed evolution as a binding principle in the center of my worldview. That’s a common theme that runs across Matt’s books.”