When a Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish...
Jul. 6th, 2007 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j_cheneyOK, I finished the above-titled book by Lisa Seachrist Chiu yesterday. It has a number of fascinating little genetic quirks described within its pages.
IMO, the book is not as accessible as many others dealing with genetics that I've read. It's a bit on the technical side, spending much more time with the bio-chemical makeup of genetic anomalies than with the human side of them (which is really what I'm interested in). Even so, I found a few really interesting ones described in those pages, (like the gene that makes you, indeed, smell fishy) and I did get--if not a story idea--a great possible story title out of the book. I think that some of the anomlolies bear further research on my part.
Still reading: The Agile Gene by Matt Ridley. (Far more accessible)
IMO, the book is not as accessible as many others dealing with genetics that I've read. It's a bit on the technical side, spending much more time with the bio-chemical makeup of genetic anomalies than with the human side of them (which is really what I'm interested in). Even so, I found a few really interesting ones described in those pages, (like the gene that makes you, indeed, smell fishy) and I did get--if not a story idea--a great possible story title out of the book. I think that some of the anomlolies bear further research on my part.
Still reading: The Agile Gene by Matt Ridley. (Far more accessible)
