She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity

About heredity and human heritage in the broadest sense. It's not just about the sequence of nucleotides in nuclear DNA. What parents pass on to their children is influenced by a whole host of factors: mitochondrial DNA, and epigenetic marks that change gene activity, and symbiotic microorganisms... Both culture and traditions, geography and economy, technology and the state in which we will leave...