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A Brief History Of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

Author: Adam Rutherford.

A Brief History Of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

Author: Adam Rutherford.

$7.98
Item #: D21357
Format: Paperback
Pages: 419
Publication Date: 2016
Publisher: W&N
ISBN: 9781780229072
In every strand of DNA we each carry the history of our species—births, deaths, disease, war, migration, and sex. With the invention of genomics, however, scientists can decode our DNA. "The past may be a foreign country, but the maps were inside us the whole time," argues Adam Rutherford in this book, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Aw... More
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In every strand of DNA we each carry the history of our species—births, deaths, disease, war, migration, and sex. With the invention of genomics, however, scientists can decode our DNA. "The past may be a foreign country, but the maps were inside us the whole time," argues Adam Rutherford in this book, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. With humor and straightforward explanations, Rutherford discusses topics like Neanderthals and murder, redheads and race, dead kings and plague, showing how genetics can shatter false beliefs about our heritage and offer new answers to some of the biggest questions of all, including who we are, and how we came to be.


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