On: The baffling intelligence of a single cell: The st...

[seatac76]

Fantastic read! If y’all are into this kind of stuff I highly recommend reading “The Song of the cell” by Siddhartha Mukherjee[1], it is one of the best books I’ve read that made the topic of biology approachable.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Song-Cell-Exploration-Medicine-Human/...

[sublimefire → seatac76]

He is a great storyteller, 2 other very successful and interesting books of his:

- The emperor of all maladies - about cancer research, for which he got a Pulitzer

- The gene - about the evolution of the field and the discoveries and what is the latest thinking

[ramraj07 → seatac76]

What does this book talk about that his previous book the Gene doesn’t?

[lmiller1990 → ramraj07]

I found Song of the Cell a bit underwhelming. The Gene really was fantastic - I think he ran out of steam a bit with Song of the Cell. The majority of the cell related history is also contained in The Gene.