Volume 6, No. 2

Book Review

It Takes a Genome. How a clash between our genes and modern life

is making us sick

Greg Gibson

Financial Times Press Science/Pearson Education, 2010

Bart Penders

Abstract

Books about science for the general public are abundant. They are either written by scientists, keen on explaining what it is that they do and why this is so important, or by (science) journalists and writers, attempting to convey insight into how the world works. The former are sometimes bad writers and the latter are sometimes badly informed. Equally, the opposite is often true. However, Greg Gibson is a full professor of genetics both in the USA and in Australia. He knows his science and he demonstrates this by including a very long list of references. Furthermore, he is not at all a bad writer. The problem of this book is of a different character.

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