"This is a book about the conceptual language of genetics. There is a need for special words and terms to deal with some of the essential abstractions in geneti

Those of us who read a daily newspaper or scan a weekly magazine have grown accustomed to being told that the science of genetics influences countless aspects o

Did you know that two of every three people reading this book will die for reasons connected with the genes they carry? That our DNA gradually changes with age,

Commissioned by the BBC to deliver the Reith Lectures in 1991, Steve Jones has used them as the basis for this book which argues that the evolution of our genes