170: Chapter 1 And Half Of Chapter 2 Of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh By Carl Zimmer

we are in the 170s as episodes go

this one is about the first chapter and a half of Carl Zimmer’s most recent book

it is called She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, and it is about heredity/genes

this section included discussion of many scientists work early on

in the 1400s and 1500s and 1600s, people tried to show off lineage

many kings and prominent families wanted to show their power or clean family lines

inbreeding did not work well to keep family lineage going; forcing something = failure

scientists later in the 1800s and 1900s processed idea of heredity

deVries and Mendel and Darwin are all mentioned here

the book reads very storylike and progresses through time