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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | Carl Zimmer

My book haul from the #betterworldbooks New Years sale. There are three more coming. #nocontrol #sorrynotsorry

Ruthiella Nice! 👍 1y

Centique I loved She has her Mothers Laugh. Long but so fascinating! 13mo

Lcsmcat @Centique Good to hear. I was surprised at how long it was, having ordered it rather than picking it out in person. 13mo

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Centique

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | Carl Zimmer

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This book looks at many of the discoveries around genetic heredity but also touches on the ways concepts of heredity have influenced human society and what our new knowledge might change. I leant towards the arts in school so my knowledge of biology is slim and this filled in lots of knowledge gaps. It starts from the earliest ideas around heredity, ⬇️

Centique so it is as much a history book as a science book. In the second half the science gets much more complex but I could still follow it. Every few pages I learnt something stunning and had to interrupt my husband and tell him about it! 😂😂 2y

Lcsmcat That‘s a good recommendation in itself! 2y

Megabooks Sounds good! 2y

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Centique @Lcsmcat it really is! 2y

Centique @Megabooks I thought you might like this, but then you‘d know a lot of these facts already! 2y

Megabooks Genetics wasn‘t strongly covered when I was in veterinary school, plus no human genetics 😉, so this sounds quite interesting! 2y

Reggie My dad is not my biological dad but people say we look alike and act alike sometimes. I wonder if there is a book about that. Or is some of that covered in here? 2y

Centique @Reggie I picked this up because I thought it might explain something about traits like that, but it only briefly touches on it, just a little about nurture and environment having their own kind of role to play. 2y

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Centique

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | Carl Zimmer

I am thoroughly enjoying this book! But I must admit the size of it gave me pause when my library hold came in 😂😂😂 657 pages but luckily nearly 100 of them are notes and indexes.
I received another chunkster at the same time but I figured I could only get through one of them and this one won. Sorry “Hild” I‘ll be back for you one day.

Ruthiella Enjoy! I like how immersive longer books can be. 2y

tenar I‘m planning on picking this one up this year, too, but am also a little intimidated. Hope it‘s great! 2y

CarolynM I'm never very good at chunksters, and especially not recently. I'm supposed to read this one for book group in the next week, I'm not sure I'll manage it😫

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Centique @CarolynM aarrgh! I know the feeling. Also I don‘t know if I can do Franzen again after The Corrections - brilliant in many ways but it completely exhausted me. 2y

Centique @tenar his writing style is very approachable so far 🤞🤞 2y

Jeg I‘m the same @CarolynM . I avoid thick books. @Centique I did have Hild but gave it away as I knew I‘d never tackle it. (edited) 2y

CarolynM The Corrections ...😫 Ugh! I'm trying not to think about it. Wish me luck I'm going in 🥺 @Jeg 2y

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BarbaraTheBibliophage

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | Carl Zimmer

Started this one over the weekend. 700 pages and a library book. Wish me luck to finish before it expires!

Thanks @MelissaSue81 for the intro to it!

#nonfiction #firstworldreaderproblems #genetics

Lindy 🍀 5y

DivineDiana Good luck! 👍🏻 5y

Crazeedi Nice cover! 5y

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Karisa

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | Carl Zimmer

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#DNF & #Library

I checked this one out via Libby from my local library and love it. Nonfiction tends to take me (much) longer to read. I like to digest the information in little bits and drive my loved ones crazy rehashing what I learn. 😂 Time ran out on this one. It's about genetics/heredity--the history, key figures, and interesting implications. I think I might need to buy it. 😉

BiblioLitten I have it on my TBR. It looks so interesting! 5y

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MelissaSue81

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | Carl Zimmer

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For a 20 hour long audiobook about a scientifically complex topic, this was really fascinating. There was a lot of different areas covered, and I can‘t say I fully understood all of it, but basically we don‘t know what we think we know about Genetics, ancestry, and heredity.

BarbaraTheBibliophage Just put it on library hold—thanks! 5y

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BookNAround

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | Carl Zimmer

I‘m in DC for a meeting right now. We came out of the meeting and into the crazy awesomeness of the Pride Parade. Also, I might have visited 2 bookstores so far (Kramerbooks and Solid State Books). I leave tomorrow but might make my way to another one or two before I go. 😉

TheNerdyProfessor You should visit Politics and Prose by the Wharf. It's a beautiful setting for a summer day! 5y

wanderinglynn I love Kramerbooks. 👍🏻👍🏻 5y

HOTPock3tt PRIDE!!! ♥️👍🏽🎉 5y

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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | Carl Zimmer

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EricaReads

She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | Carl Zimmer

1. She Has Her Mother‘s Laugh and The Wangs vs. the World
2. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 🦕
3. A Crack in Creation

I‘m on a biology bender 😂🤷‍♀️
#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity | Carl Zimmer

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Packed with interesting content. If you are interested in science behind ancestry, this is your read. There is a ton of good stuff here.

MelissaSue81 I have been on the waitlist for the audiobook for this for.ev.er. I could get it in print easily enough, but it scares men 5y

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