Genetics develops headily. Her development is often compared to revolution. To keep an eye after that, how our ideas change about life and heredity, not only wide public but also specialists does not have time. It generates mass of rumors and conjectures about frightful mutants that insidious scientists stamp in the laboratories, while striking opening of new methods of diagnostics and treatment of genetic diseases, including cancer, remain unnoticed or ununderstood. A book Мэтта Ридли is very actual. Simply and accessible an author presented history of genetics from the first guess-work to the stunning breach begun with opening of structure DNA by Watson and Scream.