Henderson, Mark

Contains fifty short essays that explain the central concepts of genetics, discussing how life came to be the way it is, how individuality is forged, ethical issues in the field, cloning, designer babies, genetic diseases, and many other topics.

Presents simplified explanations of one hundred key concepts from genetics, physics, and mathematics, with examples and diagrams to describe scientific principles, hypotheses, theorems, and laws such as chaos theory, dark matter, cloning, Newton's laws of motion, and fractals.