[raptor556]

"The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee.

If anyone can recommended some other "beginner" books for learning genetics I would really appreciate it.

[lordgrenville]

She Has her Mother's Eyes is a good one. But of course if you want to learn properly you need something more comprehensive than books like these.

[j7ake]

The gene machine (centres around nobel prize winning discovery of ribosome structure)

Time love memory: influence of genes on time keeping, mating, neurobiology.