Book and Author Talk

“She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity“—winner of the 2019 National Academies Communication Award for best book—is “a sweeping yet engaging examination from a personal perspective of the evolving nature of the scientific understanding of heredity across the centuries. The book debunks many of the insidious and profoundly unscientific distortions of heredity, including those that have provided faulty foundations for racism and eugenics—and illuminates the 21st century