Dr. Julia Richards Bibliography
“Science is often presented as a dry recitation of objective facts so devoid of opinions and feelings
that it is hard to derive a mental image of the author of the work. In many cases, this objectivity is
a good thing. After all, there are powerful reasons for identifying solid facts and distinguishing them
from opinions. To us, genetics is highly personal and not some abstraction removed from ourselves into
this book about the genome that we share with each other and with all of you. We, authors and readers alike,
are the end users of the information in our own genomes ...”
—excerpt from the preface to Richards and Hawley's
The Human Genome, A User's Guide (2nd edition).