This is a superb book aimed at the educated general reader that seeks to correct the view that genes are destiny. The author is an accomplished scientist and now science commentator on Huffington Post. His book detailed the way that gene expression, not the mere presence of genes, determines development, behavior, disease, and bodily function. Special attentin is given to how the prenatal environment, the fetal environment represented by the mother'sody and all that influences her physiology, has important influence on fetal gene expression and very early human development. Special attention is also focused on brain development and on some of the environmental influences that can lead to disability and brain malfunction. This is a timely book for all those interested in how to decide environmental and social policy. As a psychology professor whose job it is to help educate the next generation of pediatric psychologists and disability specialists, I have found that this book represents an excellent introduction to those areas of science that should attract their diligent attention as they pursue their work in the 21st Century. ( )