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The book devotes one chapter to each pair of human [[chromosome]]s. Since one (unnumbered) chapter is required to discuss the [[sex chromosome]]s, the final chapter is number 22. Ridley was inspired to adopt this model by [[Primo Levi]]'s book ''[[The Periodic Table (book)|The Periodic Table]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dawkins |first=Richard |authorlink=Richard Dawkins |title=The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MkATDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA35 |year=2009 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-921681-9 |page=35}}</ref> ▼'''''Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters''''' is a 1999 [[popular science]] [[book]] by the science writer [[Matt Ridley]], published by Fourth Estate. The chapters are numbered for the pairs of human [[chromosomes]], one pair being the X and Y [[sex chromosome]]s, so the numbering goes up to 22.
The book was welcomed by critics in journals such as ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' and newspapers including ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name=Kealey/><ref name=Silver/> The ''[[London Review of Books]]'' however found the book "at once instructive and infuriating".<ref name=Coyne/>
==Context==
The book's author, [[Matt Ridley]], is a British journalist and businessman, known for writing on science, the environment, and economics.<ref>{{cite web| publisher=Real Clear Science |date=August 2013| url=http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2013/08/08/the_worlds_top_thought_leaders_106624.html | title=World's top thought leaders}}</ref> He studied zoology, gaining his [[DPhil]] in 1983.<ref name=dphil>{{cite thesis |degree=DPhil |publisher=University of Oxford |title=Mating system of the pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) |first=Matthew White |last=Ridley |date=1983 |url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph013858922 |oclc=52225811 }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Structure==
▲The book devotes one chapter to each pair of human [[chromosome]]s. Since one (unnumbered) chapter is required to discuss the [[sex chromosome]]s, the final chapter is number 22. Ridley was inspired to adopt this model by [[Primo Levi]]'s book ''[[The Periodic Table (book)|The Periodic Table]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dawkins |first=Richard |authorlink=Richard Dawkins |title=The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MkATDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA35 |year=2009 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-921681-9 |page=35}}</ref>
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