Genetics: Genes, genomes, and evolution Paperback – May 18, 2017

I got this book for a genetics class in college but dropped it so I returned the book. It’s a high quality book and is made well, but I really don’t have much to say about readability or the content of it since it had it for like 1 week. It wouldn’t be fair to rate it low so 5 stars for the cute zebra on the cover lol

It was an item my daughter needed for college. She is satisfied with it because l haven't heard anything complaint from her about the book. However the delivery could have been much faster!

I am a genetics professor and i just received a review copy halfway through the semester and have already decided to change textbooks to this one next year. Information is well laid out in this book and it takes a modern approach to the material including genomes and higher level research that most books just bury in later chapters.

It does it's job for what i needed it for however there is little to no mention of Rosaland Franklin, a woman who died of cancer for her work, only to have her results and data stolen from her by watson and crick. These snakes were given all the credit in this book which seems like an injustice to the practice in science itself. Do not glorify liars because that is bad science.

As a professor who teaches evolution and genetics, I got an unsolicited free copy of this book last semester. Mostly it seems like a really attractive, well-organized book. The close integration of genetics and evolution isn't typical in textbooks, and it's done very well here. It has a particularly nice section on GWAS and human genetics.I have one major word of warning for anyone who's considering adopting this for a class, though: the index is woefully inadequate. It's only five pages long, which is extremely short for a 740-page book, and it's really just very skimpy. I've tried several times to look up fairly basic things that I really think must be in the book somewhere, and they're not in the index at all. I still can't tell if the book includes anything about chromosomal inversions or not, because "inversion" isn't in the index, only two things are listed under "chromosomes" (role in meiosis and role in mitosis), and there's no section on chromosomal variation listed in the table of contents. It seems like a small problem for an otherwise solid textbook, but I'm finding that it does really affect its usability, and I'm glad I didn't adopt it for my course this semester. Hopefully it's something that can be improved in subsequent editions.

The book is falling apart. The cover is literally hanging on by the paper of the cover. It would have been decent if the cover had duct tape to hold it together.