Poder, deformación y potencial de la herencia
Celebrated science columnist and writer Carl Zimmer presents a profoundly original perspective on what we pass on from generation to generation. Darwin played a crucial role in making heredity a scientific question, but he failed to answer it. The birth of genetics, in the early 20th century, seemed to do just that. Old notions about heredity were gradually translated into the language of genes. As the technology for studying genes became cheaper, millions of people sought genetic testing to link them to missing parents, distant ancestors, or ethnic identities. But heredity is not limited to genes passed from parents to children; it continues within our own bodies. We say we inherit the genes of our ancestors, but we inherit other things that matter just as much or more, from microbes to technologies to make life more convenient.
