170: Chapter 1 And Half Of Chapter 2 Of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh By Carl Zimmer
August 8, 201813m 26s
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Show Notes
we are in the 170s as episodes go- this one is about the first chapter and a half of Carl Zimmer’s most recent book
- it is called She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, and it is about heredity/genes
- this section included discussion of many scientists work early on
- in the 1400s and 1500s and 1600s, people tried to show off lineage
- many kings and prominent families wanted to show their power or clean family lines
- inbreeding did not work well to keep family lineage going; forcing something = failure
- scientists later in the 1800s and 1900s processed idea of heredity
- deVries and Mendel and Darwin are all mentioned here
- the book reads very storylike and progresses through time