
Ep 10: Tangling the Tree of Life
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How to Write a Book About Horizontal Gene Transfer
David Perry: I think of myself as writer first and science explainer or science writer second. He says he wanted to write a book about horizontal gene transfer and the redrawing of the tree of life. "You got to make things narrative and appealing to people if you want to reach not just the science nerds out there, but ordinary readers"
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