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Praise for Gerald Weissmann:"The premier essayist of our time, Gerald Weissmann writes with grace and style."The New York Times Book ReviewCalled "an absolutely first-rate writer" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Gerald Weissmann is not merely another popular science writer and intellectual historian, but one of our most incisive cultural critics and satirists. Whether contrasting the science of reproductive biology with J-Lo's view of fertility, engaging in the healthcare debate, or imagining the future prose styling of the scientific research paper in the age of Twitter, his writing is always instructive and often hilarious.Epigenetics, which attempts to explain how our genes respond to our environment, is the latest twist on the historic nature/nurture debate. In addressing this and other controversies in contemporary science Weissmann taps what he calls "the social network of Western Civilization," including the many neglected women of science: from the martyred Hypatia of Alexandria, the first woman scientist, to the Nobel laureates Marie Curie, Christine Nusslein-Volhard, and Elizabeth Blackburn, among other luminaries in the field.Gerald Weissmann is director of the Biotechnology Study Center at the New York University School of Medicine and editor-in-chief of The FASEB Journal. His essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications worldwide, including the London Review of Books and The New York Times Book Review.