ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG

La vida y el genio de Gregor Mendel, padre de la genética. Este libro nos cuenta con el ritmo y el suspense de las mejores novelas la vida de este monje de Monrovia, que en el huerto de su convento comenzo a cruzar guisantes y plantas con el fin de obtener mejores productos y, analizando los cruces y resultados, descubrio las leyes de la genetica, posiblemente la ciencia mas importante de la actualidad. Una biografia que es tambien una historia de intrigas, envidias y rivalidades.

A mother-daughter writing team reports on whats really up with kids todayScience writer Robin Marantz Henig and her daughter, journalist Samantha Henig, offer a smart, comprehensive look at what its really like to be twentysomethingand to what extent its different for Millennials than it was for their Baby Boomer parents. The Henigs combine the behavioral science literature for insights into how young people make choices about schooling, career, marriage, and childbearing; how they relate to parents, friends, and lovers; and how technology both speeds everything upand slows everything down. Packed with often-surprising discoveries, Twentysomething is a two-generation conversation that will become the definitive book on being young in our time."The fullest guide through this territory . . . A densely researched report on the state of middleclass young people today, drawn from several data sources and filtered through a comparative lens."The New Yorker