136 Siddhartha Mukherjee - An Intimate History of the Gene

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🗓️ 10 June 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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We talk to cancer physician and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee about his latest book The Gene: An Intimate History.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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1:18.8	In science, what would you say is the most dangerous and yet beautiful discovery of all of mankind?
1:28.7	Oh, beautiful.
1:30.1	I mean, I guess something to do with the atomic bomb.
1:32.8	Yeah, I think that's what I would say too.
1:35.3	But our guest this week, Siddharthor Mookerjee, says it might be the gene.
1:40.1	Wow.
1:40.9	Yeah, what do you think of when you think of the gene?
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