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A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the human story retold through our genes / Adam Rutherford ; foreword by Siddhartha Mukherjee

by Adam Rutherford, Siddhartha Mukherjee

This work explores human history through the study of genomics, tracing the species from ancient evolution and migration to the present day. It examines how DNA evidence reshapes our understanding of ancestry, race, and the future of humankind.

Accession 13174 ISBN 9781615194049 Publisher The Experiment
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Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human story--from 100,000 years ago to the present. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived will upend your thinking on Neanderthals, evolution, royalty, race, and even redheads. (For example, we now know that at least four human species once roamed the earth.) Plus, here is the remarkable, controversial story of how our genes made their way to the Americas--one that s still being written, as ever more of us have our DNA sequenced. Rutherford closes with A Short Introduction to the Future of Humankind, filled with provocative questions that we re on the cusp of answering: Are we still in the grasp of natural selection? Are we evolving for better or worse? And . . . where do we go from here?

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