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[I received a copy through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.]Some things in this book I already knew (such as the role of the X chromosome when it comes to colour vision, and why many more men than woman are colour-blind). Some others were completely new to me, although also related to th...
A breezy read on the state of genetic research today. I think the author's goal was not so much to give us lots of answers but to explain to us, "it's complicated". It depends. I relished the chance to read this in a world in which the media, in an effort to shrink everything down to digestible s...
Survival of the Sickest explores the connections between evolution, disease, and current human health. This book is extremely interesting and engaging, despite the cheesey puns. However, I had hoped for more - more science/medical details, more examples of the evolution-disease-health connections....
It's a light look at a variety of diseases and why it would be that they would continue to survive and perpetuate their genes. In the end it leaves a lot of questions, which is only right. Science often hasn't got a clue and a lot of this book is as much speculation as fact, but it admits this.
This book doesn't really live up to it's promise. It's very interesting, but I felt like the author kept getting sidetracked by other, related, things to the main theme. The audio book was kind of annoying because it had parts with music in it and it really confused me. That's the main reason this b...
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