The Dream of the Human Genome
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Description: A review of Richard Lewontin's "It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome and other Illusions".
It Ain't Necessarily So (Richard Lewontin) - book review The Dream of the Human Genome and Other Illusions © 2001 http://dannyreviews.com/ is a selection of book reviews originally published in the New York Review, in which Lewontin tackles topics in the philosophy, history, and politics of biology. Also included are some exchanges which followed the reviews and some updates written for this collection. Lewontin is an attractive stylist and a lively polemicist as well as an incisive thinker, and this collection shows him off to good effect, especially when the selection of books under review allows him to address topics in depth, in what are more essays than reviews. Some of the pieces are however a bit scattered and there is a degree of repetition between them, so anyone after a more systematic presentation of Lewontin's ideas should probably start with his books, perhaps with
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