Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction and A New York Times Notable Book of 2018. Our understanding of the `tree of life', with powerful implications for human genetics, human health and our own human nature, has recently completely changed.
The implications of recent developments in molecular biology such as CRISPR, as they are set to play out across thinking on human genetics, human health and understanding of our own nature, are considered here from the starting point that the prevalent metaphor of the tree of life no longer holds up.
