![]() ![]() 'A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human storyfrom 100,000 years ago to the present. RT AdamRutherford: I guess it was that a founder of population genetics (and creator of many statistical techniques) also recruited Joseph Mengele’s Nazi PhD supervisor to help show that cancer causes cigarette smoking and not the other way round. From the Neanderthals to the Vikings, from the Queen of Sheba to Richard III, Rutherford goes in search of our ancestors, tracing the genetic clues deep into the past' - Alice Roberts./ 'Magisterial, informative and delightful' - Peter Frankopan'.Īn extraordinary adventure. 'A thoroughly entertaining history of Homo sapiens and its DNA in a manner that displays popular science writing at its best' - Observer. 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.įrom 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. ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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