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Heredity is redefined in this sweeping, resonating overview of a force that shaped human society--a force set to shape our future even more radically.

Award-winning, 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. As the technology for studying genes became cheaper, millions of people ordered genetic tests to link themselves to missing parents, to distant ancestors, to ethnic identities...
But, Zimmer writes, Each of us carries an amalgam of fragments of DNA, stitched together from some of our many ancestors. Each piece has its own ancestry, traveling a different path back through human history. A particular fragment may sometimes be cause for worry, but most of our DNA influences who we are--our appearance, our height, our penchants--in inconceivably subtle ways. Heredity isnt just about genes that pass from parent to child. Heredity continues within our own bodies, as a single cell gives rise to trillions of cells that make up our bodies. We say we inherit genes from our ancestors--using a word that once referred to kingdoms and estates--but we inherit other things that matter as much or more to our lives, from microbes to technologies we use to make life more comfortable. We need a new definition of what heredity is and, through Carl Zimmers lucid exposition and storytelling, this resounding tour de force delivers it.
Weaving historical and current scientific research, his own experience with his two daughters, and the kind of original reporting expected of one of the worlds best science journalists, Zimmer ultimately unpacks urgent bioethical quandaries arising from new biomedical technologies, but also long-standing presumptions about who we really are and what we can pass on to future generations.

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No one unravels the mysteries of science as brilliantly and compellingly as Carl Zimmer, and he has proven it again with She Has Her Mothers Laugha sweeping, magisterial book that illuminates the very nature of who we are.

David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z

She Has Her Mothers Laugh is at once far-ranging, imaginative, and totally relevant. Carl Zimmer makes the complex science of heredity read like a novel and explains why the subject has beenand always will beso vexed.

Elizabeth Kolbert, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning The Sixth Extinction

Humans have long noticed something remarkable, namely that organisms are similar but not identical to their parentsin other words, that some traits can be inherited. From this observation has grown the elegant science of genetics, with its dazzling medical breakthroughs. And from this has also grown the toxic pseudosciences of eugenics, Lysenkoism, and Nazi racial ideology. Carl Zimmer traces the intertwined histories of the science and pseudoscience of heredity. Zimmer writes like a dream, teaches a ton of accessible science, and provides the often intensely moving stories of the people whose lives have been saved or destroyed by this topic. I loved this book.

Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University, author of Behave

She Has Her Mothers Laugh is a masterpiecea career-best work from one of the worlds premier science writers, on a topic that literally touches every person on the planet.

Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes

Nobody writes about science better than Carl Zimmer. As entertaining as he is informative, he has a way of turning the discoveries of science into deeply moving human stories. This book is a timely account of the uses and misuses of some of the science that directly impacts our lives today. It is also a career moment by one of our most important and graceful writers. Here is a book to be savored.

Neil Shubin, University of Chicago, author of Your Inner Fish

Zimmer is a born storyteller. Or is he an inherited storyteller? The inspiring and heartbreaking stories in She Has Her Mothers Laugh build a fundamentally new perspective on what previous generations have delivered to us and what we can pass along. An outstanding book and a great accomplishment.

Daniel Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind

One of the most gifted science journalists of his generation, Carl Zimmer tells a gripping human story about heredity from misguided notions that have caused terrible harm to recent ongoing research that promises to unleash more powerful technologies than the world has ever known. The breadth of his perspective is extraordinarily compelling, compassionate, and valuable. Please read this book now.

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley, coauthor of A Crack in Creation

Carl Zimmer lifts off the lid, dumps out the contents, and sorts through the pieces of one of historys most problematic ideas: heredity. Deftly touching on psychology, genetics, race, and politics, She Has Her Mothers Laugh is a superb guide to a subject that is only becoming more important. Along the way, it explains some remarkably complicated science with equally remarkable claritya totally impressive job all around.

Charles C. Mann, author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Carl Zimmer is not only among my favorite science writershes also now responsible for making me wonder why there is more Neanderthal DNA on earth right now than when Neanderthals were here, and why humanity is getting taller and smarter in the past few generations. She Has Her Mothers Laugh explains how our emerging understanding of genetics is touching almost every part of society and will increasingly touch our lives.

Charles Duhigg, author of Smarter Faster Better and The Power of Habit

With this book, Carl Zimmer rises from being our best biological science writer to being one of our very best nonfiction writers in any field, period.

Kevin Padian, professor of integrative biology, UC Berkeley

How every characteristicfrom genes to personalityis passed down from one generation to the next is one of the most fundamental, complex, misunderstood, and misused enigmas of biology. In this beautifully written, heartfelt, and enjoyable masterpiece, Zimmer weaves together history, autobiography, and science to elucidate the mysteries of heredity and why we should care. I couldnt put this book down and cant recommend it too highly.

Daniel E. Lieberman, Harvard University, author of The Story of the Human Body

She Has Her Mothers Laugh is at once enlightening and utterly compelling. Carl Zimmer weaves spellbinding narrative with luminous science writing to give us the story of heredity, the story of us all. Anyone interested in where we came from and where we are goingwhich is to say, everyonewill want to read it.

Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Genius of Birds and Chance in the House of Fate

Traversing time and societies, the personal and the political, the moral and the scientific, She Has Her Mothers Laugh takes readers on an endlessly mesmerizing journey of what it means to be human. Carl Zimmer has created a brilliant canvas of life that is at times hopeful, at times horrifying, and always beautifully rendered. I could hope for no better guide into the complexities, perils, and, ultimately, potential of what the science of heredity has in store for the world.

Maria Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game

With his latest work, Zimmer has assured his place as one of the greatest science writers of our time. She Has Her Mothers Laugh is an extraordinary exploration of a topic that is at once familiar and foreign, and touches every one of us. With the eloquence of a poet and the expertise of a scientist, Zimmer has created a nonfiction thriller that will change the way you think about your family, those you love, and the past and future.

Brian Hare, Duke University, coauthor of The Genius of Dogs

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