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Matt Ridley begins his book with a simple truth. “The human genome—the complete set of human genes—comes packaged in twenty-three separate pairs of chromosomes.” We all know that.

Few pause to think about this. The essay “I, Pencil”, which offers the autobiography of a pencil, notes that it is “taken for granted by those who use” it when it in fact merits “wonder ...

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Dylan’s testimonial is one of many in “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman,” by the former Los Angeles Times pop critic Robert Hilburn (out Oct. 22).

The book starts at a rapid pace with the discovery of DNA: the story of its isolation by Friedrich Miescher from the pus-soaked bandages of wounded German soldiers in 1869, Oswald Avery's 1943 ...