Dr. Stephen J. O'BrienTears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors

Tears of the Cheetah is an interesting book on many fronts. The author gives an inciteful historical overview of the extinction of species over time. He also presents a thorough picture of HIV from it's inception and through it's migration across multilple species. He provides food for thought on the potential extinction of humans as well. While the book begins somewhat slow for my taste it improves in mid and later chapters. This is a clear understandable presentation of complex and complicated subject matter like DNA mapping, etc. I highly recommend this book for those readers interested in species health, recent scientific advances and the survival of the human species. The book documents the increasing rapidity of medical advances at the microbiotic level of human DNA predicting the eventual eradication of numerous diseases.

The book content is great and well worth reading for an overview of the state of genetics in the animal world. The editing in the book is terrible with vast stretches of run on words without appropriate spacing. Took a while to figure out a few sentences-try reading an entire sentence without spaces! very annoying

It is quite interesting and not only does it educate, but also explains O'Brien's expiriences in his investigations.

I've learned so much from Tears of the Cheetah. While the subject is rather deep; (scientific), it was well written and easy to read.Dr. O'Brian was able to blend history, science and personal experience into a well-written book.-TJ

Smiles for Tears of the Cheetah. O'Brien has the ability to explain very scientific concepts in easy to understand language.

This is such an amazing book!! I would highly recommend this to anyone

Great information but veryttechnical.

The author provides fascinating, somewhat technical (for non-biologists) insights into late 20th century molecular biology, from conservation biology to gene therapy. My only criticism is that some 20 years later, we need an update!

Very nice

One of my all-time favorite books.