Dr. Euan Angus Ashley's The Genome Odyssey explores the scientific breakthroughs of the Human Genome Project, a decade-long scientific research project to identify and map all of the genes of the human genome. Through Dr. Ashley and his team's efforts, we now have more reliable diagnosis and disease prevention as well as cheaper clinical tests to better predict our genetic future. Dr. Ashley's writing flows off the page and reads more like a novel than a dry textbook.