JACOB’S LADDER: THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN GENOME

Book ID/图书代码： 00500004B06069

English Summary/英文概要： What makes us as humans all alike and yet as individuals so different? Jacob’s Ladder delivers a remarkably lucid explanation of what the sequencing of the human genome really tells us. Decoding the sequence, evolutionary biologist Henry Gee shows, is just the beginning: seeing the letters and words. The next frontier is in understanding snatches of conversation between genes—how they interact to direct the growth of an organism. Gee takes us into the heart of that conversation, illuminating how genes govern a single egg cell’s miraculous transformation into a human being, and how they continue to direct that person’s day-by-day development throughout a lifetime.
Gee tells the story of what we know about the genome today and what we are likely to discover tomorrow. As our knowledge advances, we will be able to direct with increasing authority the conversations between genes: not only performing medical interventions but also creating whole scripts directing birth, ancestry, and diversity in a brave new world.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 是什么让我们都是人类，却个体差异很大呢？《染色体的历史》做出了对人类基因的明确解释。在破译基因的先后顺序只是开始，就如同只看到了字母。接下来的难题就是了解清楚基因之间是如何传递信息的，如何互相影响形成组织。作者仿佛带我们来到了基因传递过程的内部，切身的去了解基因是如何控制细胞在人体中的转变，他们是如何让一个人一天一天的长大的。书中用浅显的语言讲述了基因研究的现状，未来的发展状况。不是医学难懂的词汇，而是用一些平时的语言从基因的角度让我们来了解我们的出生，血统，个体差异性。

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About the Author/作者介绍： Henry Gee, former Regents Professor at UCLA, is a science writer for Nature. He lives in London.

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