![]() ![]() ![]() From 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. 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. 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. Where did they come from Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has completely upended what we thought we knew about. ‘A brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. ![]()
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