The Gene

** NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER **The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history from the author of The Emperor of All Maladies.The story begins in an Augustinian abbey in 1856, and takes the reader from Darwin s groundbreaking theory of evolution, to the horrors of Nazi eugenics, to present day and beyond - as we learn to read and write the human ...