a brief history of everyone who has ever lived

Written and read by acclaimed science writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford. 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. 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. Genes determine less than we have been led to believe about us as individuals, but vastly more about us as a species. 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. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes by Adam Rutherford, Siddhartha Mukherjee (Foreword by) 5.0 Paperback (Reprint) 14.95 16.95 Save 12 Paperback 14.95 eBook 11.99 Audiobook 0. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be.

Since scientists first read the human genome in 2001 it has been subject to all sorts of claims, counterclaims and myths. A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes by Adam Rutherford 2016 EPUB + AZW3 0.3/0.3MB. But it is also our collective story, because in each of our genomes we carry the history of the whole of our species. It is unique to you, as it is for every one of the 100 billion modern humans who has ever drawn breath.

A brief history of everyone who has ever lived