Why I'm Like Dad

Questions like those are the field of this book. It describes the quests that led to major discoveries in genetics, and the obstacles encountered by researchers, and tells about the scientists who study heredity, and how to change it. The author, a prominent biologist himself, takes the reader to research laboratories, farm fields, and hospitals, opening up before him the whole broad field of modern genetics.

Why I'm Like Dad received the award of the USSR Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge (Ananiye) for the best popular science writing in 1967.