Book Review by Jose Gaudier, MD
At a time that I was getting myself organized to review the topic of genetics and get more acquainted with some of the new information, this book suddenly appeared. It is a simple but fairly comprehensive book on one of the most amazing discoveries of the last 150 years. 
The history of life, DNA and the mapping of our genome is related through 23 chapters. Each chapter presents a story corresponding to each of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes.
We know that each chromosome has thousands of genes and a comprehensive review of all the available data would lead to an encyclopedia-sized book too boring to read. Instead the author selects one important aspect of each chromosome to present. Examples include the importance of genes to life, fate, memory, sex, evolution, instincts, and many other aspects of nature.
