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The gene siddhartha mukherjee review6/25/2023 ![]() He isn't interested in exploring or settling historical disputes only a few are even hinted at. He is going to cover a lot of ground without delivering an unreadable doorstop. Indeed, once we leave Mendel we leave plant genetics behind for the remainder of the book. Mukherjee early on declares some areas that simply won't be touched, such as genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the environment. Mukherjee has chosen a very ambitious task: to educate a reader in what they need to know to understand the modern field of human genetics, particularly when it comes to our ability to predict health and disease and the possibilities in front of us for gene therapy and reproductive selection. So the challenge as a reviewer is to assess how well the author has organized and selected what to report, given the constraints of the chosen medium. ![]() Those last two will also be executed very differently if writing for a Trends journal versus one of the Annual Reviews series having more or less space for a topic is a key consideration in how to treat it. ![]() ![]() ![]() We try to think of science as being strictly true to facts, and it should be, but the reality is that the same facts will be written very differently in a paper's introduction, a comprehensive review of a topic or a historical review. ![]()
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