The Gene: An Intimate History

Review "History repeats itself, in part because the genome repeats itself. And the genome repeats itself, in part because history does. The impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires that drive human history are, at least in part, encoded in the human genome. And human history has, in turn, selected genomes that carry these impulses, ambitions, fantasies, and desires" --S. Mukherjee What a book. Every biologist should read this. --By Gopalakrishnan K on 24 May 2016The greatest science writing book i ever had. A long search history led by a thousand explorers, from Aristotle, Pythagoras to Mendel to Francis Collins and to j.Craig venter in search of genetic hereditary 'thing' and what makes us. Brilliantly written. I wish, I would have read this book just two years ago. Wonderful and enjoyable (must) read if you love genetics. Beautifully carried, and connected all missed and available pieces of history of a gene... To his familial heredity. Siddhartha Mukherjee (author)- is really a extraordinary writer. --By mayur pawale on 29 May 2016Siddhartha mukherjee weaves a story that brings together the twin fabrics of science and personal past together. He does the same thing to medicine that William Darlymple did for history- making it interesting,personal and passionate. This book is a must read for everyone who want to know about genes and themselves. Because we are all as the book so wonderfully unveils are but made of genes. --By Arun Gautham on 23 June 2016 About the Author

ASIN

0670087149

Embedding

CLIP ViT-L/14 · 768d

Distance metric

cosine

Doc fetch

2ms·cache hitGET /v2/namespaces/amazon-products/documents/0670087149

How it works

Similar query

18msnearest_to_id → /query

Doc fetch goes through Layer's Aerospike pull-through cache; cache hit served the row without touching turbopuffer. The similar query asks Layer for nearest neighbors of the stored product vector — queries don't go through the doc cache, so no cache header is set.