A Brief History Of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
by Adam Rutherford /
2017 / English / Kindle, EPUB, PDF
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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. But those stories have always been locked away—until
now, with the invention of genomics, a tool that lets scientists
decode our DNA. The implications for our identity are enormous.
As acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford shows, before
genomics, we never really knew much about ourselves at all. And
so he rewrites all of human history—from 100,000 years ago to the
present, and on topics as wide-ranging as Neanderthals and
murder, redheads and race, dead kings and plague, evolution and
epigenetics—using genetics to shatter deeply held beliefs about
our heritage, and to replace them with new answers to some of the
biggest questions of all: Who we are, and how we came to
be.
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. But those stories have always been locked away—until
now, with the invention of genomics, a tool that lets scientists
decode our DNA. The implications for our identity are enormous.
As acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford shows, before
genomics, we never really knew much about ourselves at all. And
so he rewrites all of human history—from 100,000 years ago to the
present, and on topics as wide-ranging as Neanderthals and
murder, redheads and race, dead kings and plague, evolution and
epigenetics—using genetics to shatter deeply held beliefs about
our heritage, and to replace them with new answers to some of the
biggest questions of all: Who we are, and how we came to
be.