Next

Welcome to our genetic world.  Fast, furious, and out of control.  This is not the world of the future-it's the world right now.

Is a love missing some body parts?  Are blondes becoming extinct?  Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species?  Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being?  And should that worry us?  There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction- is it worse than the disease?

We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to see our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and test our spouses for genetic maladies.

We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-couuntry because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes...

Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a few world where nothing is what it seems and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn