I read Genome by Matt Ridley for my book report this semester. It was an interesting and thoroughly enjoyable book because of the vast amount of information contained within it. In the book there are twenty three chapters for twenty three haploid chromosomes, a creative and unique way of writing. Ridley describes each chromosome pair in his own way, using not only cold hard facts but a little sarcasm as well, a feat worth congratulating. At times it was hard for me to understand the text because I do not have a full medical-grade background, but the book was intriguing. The author poked at what one normally would believe is true and made one question if it really was. In the book the areas of Life, Species, History, Self interest, Disease, Stress, Personality, Death, Cures, Prevention, Pre- History, Immortality, Sex, Memory, Politics, Fate, Environment, Intelligence, Instinct, Conflict (sex...