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''Genome'' has been reviewed in scientific journals including ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''<ref name=Kealey>{{cite journal |last1=Kealey |first1=Terence |title=Book Review Genome:The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters |journal=Nature |date=2000 |volume=24 |issue=21 |doi=10.1038/71638 |url=http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v24/n1/full/ng0100_21.html}}</ref><!--details please if you have the full text!--> and in medical journals such as the ''[[New England Journal of Medicine]]'', where Robert Schwartz notes that Ridley speculates, "sometimes wildly". The book is a "gambol" through the human chromosomes. All the same, Schwartz writes, the book is "instructive, challenging, and fun to read. I envy Ridley's talent for presenting, without condescension, complex sets of facts and ideas in terms comprehensible to outsiders."<ref name=Schwartz>{{cite journal |last1=Schwartz|first1=Robert S. |title=Book Review Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters |journal=New England Journal of Medicine |date=2000 |volume=342 |page=1763 |doi=10.1056/NEJM200006083422321 |url=http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200006083422321#t=article}}</ref>
Lee M. Silver, reviewing ''Genome'' in ''[[The New York Times]]'', argues that the book's theme is that each individual's genome contains "echoes" (Ridley's word) of their ancestors' lives. Silver calls Ridley "adamant" in believing that the use of "personal genetics" must not be left for doctors or governments to control, following on from the mistakes of [[eugenics]] a century ago, but that it's a fundamental human right to "see and use the messages in their own DNA as they see fit." Silver describes the book as remarkable for focusing on "pure intellectual discovery", providing "delightful stories". He suggests that even practising geneticists will gain a sense of wonder from the "hidden secrets" in the book.<ref name=Silver>{{cite news |last1=Silver |first1=Lee M. |title=Map of Life |url=
The biologist [[Jerry Coyne]], writing in the ''[[London Review of Books]]'', criticises ''Genome'' as "at once instructive and infuriating. For each nugget of science, Ridley also includes an error or misrepresentation. Some of these derive from poor scholarship: others from his political agenda." Coyne argues that Ridley is an "implacable" genetic determinist, denying the influence of the environment, and calling his politics "right-wing". He calls the book's structure "eccentric" and "bizarre", the chapters matching the 23 pairs of human chromosomes, and notes that ''Genome'' is the third of Ridley's books that "tries to popularise" [[evolutionary psychology]].<ref name=Coyne>{{cite journal |last1=Coyne |first1=Jerry |title=Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley |journal=London Review of Books |date=27 April 2000 |volume=22 |issue=9 |url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/v22/n09/jerry-coyne/not-an-inkling}}</ref>
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