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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb, and I'm Joe McCormick, and it's Saturday time to go into the old vault. This time we're going in for an interview. I want to say this was a really interesting interview. I really liked it. This is the interview we had with the science writer Carl Zimmer, originally published in June of 2018 about his book on heredity called She Has Her Mother's Laugh, The Powers Perversions and Potential of Heredity. And I thought this was a really good talk.

Yeah, this was a lot of fun. I just got him chatting about his experiences writing the book. Some of the real high points regarding what heredity is, how it works.

And also I remember we got him talking a little bit about what if you were to write your name in someone's gene? How long would that signature last?

So yeah, it's a fun conversation. And it was an honor to get to talk to Carl Zimmer, who's such a big name in science communication.

He's been one of my favorite science writers for years, and it was really cool.

All right, let's jump right in.

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Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb, and I'm Joe McCormick. And boy, do we have a treat for you today?

That's right. We're chatting with Carl Zimmer about his new book. She has her mother's laugh, The Powers Perversions and Potential of Heredity.

This is a fantastic book. I was trying to finish it before we talked to him today, and I was up till 2 a.m. last night getting to the very last page.

But it was worth it. It is a great book. I really highly recommend it. It's a brick that's just full of weird, interesting delights and insights about how our views of heredity have changed over the years.

All of the good and all of the evil that that knowledge has been used for. And also where it's going in the future.

Yeah, yeah. It's a fascinating book. I also got to see him in conversation with Maria Conocova at World Science Festival this year, in which she talked about the themes in the book as well.

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