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James Watson, a discoverer of structure of DNA, described it as the most golden of molecules, true chemical for life. Indeed, it is essential component from which our genes are made. In it is encoded genetic language that controls our destinies. Astonishingly powerful, just six millionths of a gram of carries as much information as ten volumes of Oxford English Dictionary. The of Man, is term used by Walter Bodmer and Robin McKie for that is instruction set according to which all humans are made. At conception, a single cell--the fertilized egg--is produced, and it is this one cell that has potential to form a new and unique individual under guidance of within its nucleus. The human body is made up of a hundred million million cells of many different sorts, and all contain inherited information that comes from that first, single cell created at fertilization. Bodmer and McKie assert that when we learn how to read DNA's pages and chapters we will obtain information relevant to understanding of most diseases, individual differences in behavior, and a new awareness of our own history and evolution. The Book of Man explores how genetic information is now being read and interpreted by focusing on biology's most ambitious undertaking to date--the Human Genome Project, an attempt to uncover all 100,000 genes that control our development and detail alphabet of each. The authors go on to wrestle with moral and ethical issues of modern genetics, making a case for a rational appraisal of genetic engineering and for public to become sufficiently DNA literate in order to appreciate crucial role it plays in our lives. From Gregor Mendel's discovery of laws of inheritance to high-tech, crime-stopping power of forensics science and fascinating but sometimes troublesome implications of latest science of genetic engineering, The Book of Man brilliantly explores and explains quest that is changing our understanding of what it means to be a human being.
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