Lander and his colleagues say evolution's labbook points to only 30, 000 genes--if a gene is defined as a stretch of DNA that codes for one of the proteins from which the body is built.
In his book Thinking Fast and Slow, Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman cites compelling research done in the lab of Dr. Kathleen Vohs at the University of Minnesota on the psychological effects of money on human behavior.
The book also explores the platonic relationship between Singh and Eckman, who worked side by side in a tiny lab for so many years that they became as close as lovers without the romance.