

A New Scientist reader feedback item flags a mirror-image DNA helix on the cover of a Selfish Gene edition, one of several errors noticed by geneticists and readers.

A New Scientist reader feedback item flags a mirror-image DNA helix on the cover of a Selfish Gene edition, one of several errors noticed by geneticists and readers.
Oh great, a reader spotted a backwards DNA helix on a cover. Shocking. The real story is that a publisher slapped biology on a book about biology without a geneticist glancing at it first.