170: Chapter 1 And Half Of Chapter 2 Of She Has Her Mother’s Laugh By Carl Zimmer

we are in the 170s as episodes go
this one is about the first chapter and a half of Carl Zimmer’s most recent book
it is called She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, and it is about heredity/genes
this section included discussion of many scientists work early on
in the 1400s and 1500s and 1600s, people tried to show off lineage
many kings and prominent families wanted to show their power or clean family lines
inbreeding did not work well to keep family lineage going; forcing something = failure
scientists later in the 1800s and 1900s processed idea of heredity
deVries and Mendel and Darwin are all mentioned here
the book reads very storylike and progresses through time