Take Note discussion

"...odd genetic anomilies, swirls, transients, given a brief possibility, existence, by the nature of islands and isolation. But islands open up, people die or intermarry, genetic attenuation sets in, and the condition disappears. The life of such a genetic disease in an isolate tends to be six or eight generations, two hundred years perhaps, and then it vanishes, as do memories and traces, lost in the ongoing stream of time." p. 177

Really well written.

Added to my TBR!

How was the book in general.

I love Oliver Sacks! I am planning on reading all of his books, and this one in particular is really interesting for many reasons. He travels to Micronesia to study neurological problems, and his descriptions are very interesting.