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DNA Decoded: "Life's Greatest Secret"

Basic Books

Talking and thinking about DNA is so deeply ingrained now... well, it's IN our DNA. 

But it's useful to remember that our knowledge of deoxyribonucleic acid and the way it shapes every living thing is relatively recent. 

Life's Greatest Secret, zoologist Matthew Cobb calls it in his book by that name. 

He makes the case that cracking the code of DNA profoundly changed the way we think about life. 

The author joins us with the history of the discovery, and what led from it.  
 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.