He is great and deserves to be read! He is a high school teacher and I think his work as a teacher underscores the lack of bias in his descriptions. He's passionately interested, in the intellectual sense, and utterly disinterested financially. Genetics is the single most accessible source not only of information on the implications for Homo sapiens of the esoterica of the new genetics and cell biology, but of knowledge and wisdom. Cutting through hype to the crux of the matter?our fundamental humanity develops in context.