
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
The Stories in Our Genes
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Adam Rutherford
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Adam Rutherford
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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 for every one of the 100 billion modern humans who has ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in each of our genomes we carry the history of the whole of our species.
Since scientists first read the human genome in 2001, it has been subject to all sorts of claims, counterclaims and myths. Drawing together the latest discoveries in this rapidly changing area of science, Adam Rutherford shows that in fact our genomes should be read not like instruction manuals but more like epic poems. Genes determine less than we have been led to believe about us as individuals but vastly more about us as a species.
In this captivating journey through the expanding landscape of genetics, written with great clarity and wit, Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes now tell us about human history and what history tells us about our genes. From Neanderthal discoveries to microbiology, from redheads to dead royals, criminology to race relations, evolution to epigenetics, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived is a demystifying and illuminating new portrait of who we are and how we came to be.
Written and read by acclaimed science writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford.
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©2016 Adam Rutherford (P)2016 Orion Publishing GroupExcellent
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Informative, illuminating, myth-busting book
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Genetics made easy
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Excellent book.
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Interesting and entertaining
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Great!
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Chapters are not listed in order tho
Great subject
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Clear and engaging
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But if ever a book needed an updated new edition, this is it. We've learned a lot since 2016, and the incredibly rapid development of COVID vaccines illustrated the importance of understanding genes.
Fascinating, well-written and well-narrated
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a much more entertaining book than I expected
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