It's Monday, December 10th, 2018, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. I'm Kishore Hari.

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Today, we're revisiting an episode we ran earlier this year featuring New York Times science columnist Carl Zimmer about his latest book.

She Has Her Mother's Laugh.

The book is up for numerous best science book of the year awards.

The Guardian listed is one of its favorite picks, science news.

It's up for numerous science book award prizes, including the EO

literary prize in science. So I can't recommend it enough as a great read over the holiday season.

But the other reason I thought we should revisit this topic this week is given all the news surrounding

what has happened with CRISPR editing of embryos that were grown into humans by a

scientist in China. A lot of our discussion with Carl back in June revolved around all of the

weird kind of details that comes in line with

Heredity and now the new science of genetics that is trying to change the sort of equation

of how we can reproduce, how we can edit our DNA, and what that means for the future of our species

in general, while looking back at mistakes, I think would be a generous way to put it in history

when we have dabbled in this space.

Now, I don't want to oversell it. I believe that there's a lot of

great work happening in the science of genetics, but what has happened in China over the past

few weeks as news continues to emerge regarding the experiments conducted, Carl delves into topics that are at the heart of that debate,

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