{"id":19091,"date":"2020-11-04T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/?p=19091"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:46:11","slug":"nnlm-reading-club-looks-beneath-the-surface","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/nnlm-reading-club-looks-beneath-the-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"NNLM Reading Club Looks Beneath the Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19092\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/November_Book_Cover_Image_201030-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/November_Book_Cover_Image_201030-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/November_Book_Cover_Image_201030.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Your health is the product of three factors: lifestyle, environment and genetics. In November, NNLM Reading Club is taking a closer look at human genetics.<\/p>\n<p>Featured are three books that translate the complexities of genetics into understandable terms. Pulitzer Prize-winner Siddhartha Mukherjee traces the history of genetics from its beginnings in the 19<sup>th<\/sup>-century experiments of Gregor Mendel and intertwines it with the story of his own family in <em>The Gene: An Intimate History<\/em>. \u00a0Adam Rutherford looks at the wealth of information our DNA contains \u2013 including the history of our species \u2013 in <em>A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold through Our Genes. <\/em>Finally, in <em>Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are<\/em>, Indiana University School of Medicine Professor Bill Sullivan describes how genetics, epigenetics, microbiology and psychology combine to affect our personalities and actions.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan will be the guest speaker for a Nov. 17 online author talk as part of the NNLM Reading Club Presents\u2026 Series. Join us at 2 p.m. ET at <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1l2CGOsYL04\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/1l2CGOsYL04<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about these books and their authors \u2013 and to find related information from the National Library of Medicine and other authoritative sources \u2013 visit <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/all-of-us\/nnlm-reading-club\/human-genetics\">NNLM Reading Club\u2019s Human Genetics<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your health is the product of three factors: lifestyle, environment and genetics. In November, NNLM Reading Club is taking a closer look at human genetics. Featured are three books that translate the complexities of genetics into understandable terms. Pulitzer Prize-winner Siddhartha Mukherjee traces the history of genetics from its beginnings in the 19th-century experiments of&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/nnlm-reading-club-looks-beneath-the-surface\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,52,9,4,11],"tags":[95,119,55,56,57,178,124],"class_list":["post-19091","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-all-of-us","category-blog","category-health-literacy","category-regional-news","category-public-libraries","tag-all-of-us","tag-consumer-health","tag-genetics","tag-genomics","tag-health-literacy","tag-nnlm-reading-club","tag-public-library"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19091"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19099,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19091\/revisions\/19099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}