life. In the process they encounter Chip Bingley, a young doctor and reluctant reality TV celebrity, and his medical school classmate, Fitzwilliam Darcy, a cynical neurosurgeon. Pride and Prejudice has also inspired works of scientific writing. In 2010, scientists named a pheromone identified in male mouse urine darcin, after Mr Darcy, because it strongly attracted females. In 2016, a scientific paper published in the Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease speculated that Mrs Bennet may have been a carrier of a rare genetic disease, explaining why the Bennets didn't have any sons, and why some of the Bennet sisters are so silly. In summer 2014, Udon Entertainment's Manga Classics line published a manga adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. References External links Digital resources relating to Jane Austen from the British Library's Discovering Literature website 1813 British novels British novels adapted into films Novels by Jane Austen Novels set in Hertfordshire Novels adapted into operas Novels adapted into comics Novels about nobility British novels adapted into television shows British romance novels