Zimmer, C: She Has Her Mother's Laugh

Praise for Carl Zimmer:
She Has Her Mother's Laugh
'A masterpiece - a career-best work from one of the world's premier science writers, on a topic that literally touches every person on the planet.' Ed Yong, author of I Contain Multitudes
'No one unravels the mysteries of science as brilliantly and compellingly as Carl Zimmer, and he has proven it again with She Has Her Mother's Laugh - a sweeping, magisterial book that illuminates the very nature of who we are' David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
'Zimmer writes like a dream, teaches a ton of accessible science, and provides the often intensely moving stories of the people whose lives have been saved or destroyed by [the science and pseudoscience of heredity] . . . I loved this book.' Robert Sapolsky, author of Behave

Soul Made Flesh
'Clear, vivid, and arresting . . . Carl Zimmer gives a remarkable, beautiful account of England's "genius century" ' Oliver Sacks
'A tour de force, eloquently and excitingly written, powerfully re-creating the atmosphere and personalities of the time, and making the science agreeably intelligible to the non-scientist.' Sunday Telegraph

Carl Zimmer writes the Matter column for the
New York Times and has contributed to the
Atlantic,
National Geographic,
Time, and
Scientific American. He has won the Stephen Jay Gould Prize among many other honors for his journalism. Zimmer teaches science writing at Yale University. His previous books include
Parasite Rex,
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, and
Microcosm, which was shortlisted for the
Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize and longlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize.