Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the industry now dedicated to this new frontier. Since the launch of the...

In LIFELINES Steven Rose confronts the fashionable ideology of ultra-Darwinism, which reduces humans and other living organisms to little more than machines for the replication of DNA. By placing the organism rather than the gene at the...

Steven Rose is Professor of Biology and Director of the Brain and Behaviour Research Group at the Open University. THE CHEMISTRY OF LIFE (1966) was his first book. Since then he has written many others, including, in Penguin, NOT IN OUR...