Celebrated New York Times columnist and science writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass along from generation to generation. Charles Darwin played a crucial part in turning heredity into a scientific question, and yet he failed spectacularly to answer it. The birth of genetics in the early 1900s seemed to do precisely that. Gradually, people translated their old notions about heredity into a language of genes....

"This fun book about dog shows teaches the core curriculum topic of inheritance."--

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author draws on his scientific knowledge and research to describe the magisterial history of a scientific idea, the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans; that governs our form, function, and fate; and that determines the future of our children. The story of the gene begins in earnest in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where Gregor Mendel, a monk working with pea...

¡Descubre los secretos de la ciencia con "Futuros Genios"! ¿C?mo se define el color de nuestro pelo? ¿Qu? son los genes? ¿Y las bases nitrogenadas? ¡Acompa?a a Valentina en esta fascinante exploraci?n del ADN y convi?rtete en un genio de la gen?tica! "Futuros Genios" es una colecci?n pensada para compartir un momento? de lectura y aprendizaje en familia. A trav?s de ilustraciones sencillas? y divertidas, Carlos Pazos, divulgador cient?fico conocido...

"What is life? How did it start? Long, long ago, no one knows exactly where or when, a tiny bubble formed that was a Little Bit Different. It was the first living cell. Everyone's ancestor. And so the story of life begins."--