![]() ![]() Is he right? Ridley, a science writer who has written previous books on genetic issues, certainly makes a good argument for the importance-and excitement-of his topic. In fact, he tells us that as we identify our genes, we are "living through the greatest intellectual moment in history." ![]() Ridley's enthusiasm for his subject is evident, and it is reminiscent of a chorus of optimistic voices of earlier generations who told us that everything would be different now that we could fly, could use electricity to light our homes and power our appliances, could inoculate our children against polio, or could walk on the Moon. Rather, it uses the project as a launching pad to explore the types of knowledge that we have gained, or hope to gain in the foreseeable future, from understanding our genetic makeup. ![]() Matt Ridley's book Genome follows that tradition by underscoring the importance of the Human Genome Project to our understanding of ourselves and to many of our long-held aspirations, like the development of treatments for disease.Īctually, the book is not about the genome project per se. We have often heard over the past century how advances in technology will change our lives. ![]()
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