The dream of the genome and other illusions

This book covers the history of modern biology from Darwin to Dolly the sheep, combining sharp critique of exaggerated scientific claims and a clear presentation of the most important current scientific knowledge issues and the most controversial ones, and it refutes any tendency to see biology as the way to know everything we want to know about our physical, mental, and social lives. In this book, written by one of the most famous biologists in the world, there is a broad human perspective on science, so he was called "Voltaire of the age of absolute genes," and this book in the West is seen as providing a lot of information, increased by its stimulating and provocative content. The book contains nine chapters: "The Deficiency Complex," "Darwin's Revolution," "Darwin, Mendel, and the Mind," "The Science of Transformation," "The Dream of the Human Genome," "Women Confronting Biologists," "Sex, Lies, and Social Sciences," "Confusion About Cloning," and "Survival of the Kindest?" in addition to the introduction, the preface, and the glossary of terms.