a brief history of everyone who has ever lived

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 history, and what history tells us about our genes.

DNA determines far less than we have been led to believe about us as individuals, but vastly more about us as a species. In fact, as Adam Rutherford explains, our genomes should be read not as instruction manuals, but as epic poems. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes: Rutherford, Adam, Mukherjee, Siddhartha: 9781615194940: : Books Books Science & Math Evolution Buy new: 10.39 List Price: (39) FREE delivery Saturday, March 25 if you spend 25 on items shipped by Amazon Or fastest delivery.

Since scientists first read the human genome in 2001 it has been subject to all sorts of claims, counterclaims and myths. Adams earlier book, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived is the story of the whole of human history, retold with DNA as a text, everyone and everything from Neanderthals to serial. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. 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 the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be.

A brief history of everyone who has ever lived