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Not my first review of a masterpiece orchestrated by Siddhartha Mukherjee, as I am guilty to languishing (past a reasonable amount of time) in Pulitzer Prize winner “Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.�� Our Mom and Dad give us something. Finding what the something is are drops of light in a “dunkelweld�� begging the question do genes determine our identity? What part does Mom and Dad play?

What is a gene anyway? A gene is vibrating message to build a protein, which creates a protein. After the silent birth of form and function, regulation becomes its�� job. In this case, how does this explain his specialty as he takes a view from the heights and adds “family material�� in candidly documenting heritable/un-inheritable mental illness.

��...with God shoved aside---what was the driving force behind the origin of the species? What impetus drove the descent of, say, thirteen variants of finches down the fierce rivulets of speciation?�� ...Spring 1838...Darwin tore into...the maroon C notebook.��
---Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD

Erudition comes slow and in the doing we are transported to a garden and find a humble monk growing peas on 5 acres in Austria. This monk lives in an Österreich abbey and chooses peas as his subject—as he is prohibited from using vermin. His name is Gregor Mendel. He creates pea hybrids and with mutations he discerns come variety.

The Gene: An Intimate History is providential. From the Asilomar Conference to the birth of Genetech that within is profound. Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD writes as if a fire burning slowly “intus penetus.�� Mendels�� forgotten “pea�� paper was key to the basic core of heredity and opened a door to W. Arating. Buy, read and share.