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Prose: non-fiction, History of science, Popular science, Genetics (non-medical), DNA & Genome, Family history, tracing ancestors
From the acclaimed science writer and broadcaster, a dazzling tour of the latest genetic discoveries which are blurring the boundaries between science and history
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration and a lot of sex.
In this captivating journey through the expanding landscape of genetics, Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes now tell us about human history, and what history can now tell us about our genes. From Neanderthals to murder, from redheads to race, dead kings to plague, evolution to epigenetics, this is a demystifying and illuminating new portrait of who we are and how we came to be.
Praise for A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
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This book is a captivating delight. With witty, authoritative, and profound prose, Adam Rutherford ... does more than any author to cut through the confusion around genetics, and to reveal what modern genetics has to say about our identity, history, and future
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived | Introduction by author Adam Rutherford
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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived | Introduction by author Adam Rutherford
Adam Rutherford
Dr Adam Rutherford is a scientist, writer and broadcaster. He has written and presented award-winning series and programmes for the BBC, including Radio 4's Inside Science and The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry with Dr Hannah Fry. He is the author of Creation, shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Book of Humans, the Sunday Times bestselling How to Argue With a Racist and the co-author of Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged).
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