Steve Jones-s highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic breakthroughs from GM food to Dolly the sheep.-An essential sightseer-s guide to our own genetic terrain.- Peter Tallack, Sunday Telegraph-Superb and stimulating-an exhilarating trip around the double spiral of DNA, a rush of gravity-defying concepts and wild swerves of the scientific imagination.- J.G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph-Not so much divination as demystification- An attempt to bring genetics and evolution more into the public domain. If, for instance, you ever wondered just what genetic engineering is about, here is as good a place as any to discover. Few have Jones-s ability to communicate a difficult idea with such humour, clarity, precision and ease.- Laurence Hurst, Times Higher ; -Sensitive to the social issues raised by genetics- yet Jones-s interest reaches beyond contemporary social issues to the human past, to what genetics can and cannot tell u
