A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the human story retold through our genes

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A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the human story retold through our genes

Title remainder

the human story retold through our genes

Statement of responsibility

Adam Rutherford ; foreword by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Creator

• Rutherford, Adam

Contributor

• Mukherjee, Siddhartha

Author

• Rutherford, Adam

Subject

• Genomics -- history
• Evolution (Biology)
• DNA -- History
• Human genome

Language

eng

Summary

In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species--births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away--until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. 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?

Cataloging source

DNLM/DLC

Dewey number

611/.0181663

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

QH445.2

LC item number

.R88 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

QU 11.1

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