Book and Author Talk

She Has Her Mothers Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity winner of the 2019 National Academies Communication Award for best bookis a sweeping yet engaging examination from a personal perspective of the evolving nature of the scientific understanding of heredity across the centuries. The book debunks many of the insidious and profoundly unscientific distortions of heredity, including those that have provided faulty foundations for racism and eugenicsand illuminates the 21st century