Books, Arts & Manners: Touring the Helix

Genome, by Jerry E. Bishop and Michael Waldholz (Simon & Schuster, 352 pp., $21.95)

ALOT OF catchy labels have been put on the second half of the twentieth century: the atomic age, the computer age, the information age, the space age. But it seems more and more likely that the winner will be a rather late starter— the gene age. As this thoughtful and extremely readable book shows, the genome project—which seeks to map and identify all of the fifty to a hundred thousand genes in the human body—may have controversial and farreaching impact on the human condition.

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Genome, by Jerry E. Bishop and Michael Waldholz (Simon & Schuster, 352 pp., $21.95)

ALOT OF catchy labels have been put on the second half of the twentieth century: the atomic age, the computer age, the information age, the space age. But it seems more and more likely that the winner will be a rather late starter— the gene age. As this thoughtful and extremely readable book shows, the genome project—which seeks to map and identify all of the fifty to a hundred thousand genes in the human body—may have controversial and farreaching impact on the human condition.