Overview of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived Book

- A popular and acclaimed science writer, broadcaster and public speaker, Adam is the regular host of BBC Radio 4's flagship science programme, Inside Science and new series the Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry. He has presented many TV documentaries for the BBC on biology and genetics. - Adam's first book, Creation, was published in 2013 to outstanding reviews and was shortlisted for the welcomeBook Prize: 'One of the most eloquent and thoughtful books about science over the past decade' --Observer - 'Prepare to be astounded. This book is so gripping it reads like a thriller'-- Mail on Sunday - 'A fascinating glimpse into our past and future'-- Sunday Times - 'This book is a captivating delight. With witty, authoritative and profound prose, Adam Rutherford tackles the biggest of issues - where we came from and what makes us who we are. He does more than any author to cut through the confusion around genetics and to reveal what modern genetics has to say about our identity, history and future' -- Ed Yong - 'This scintillating tour of the latest genetic discoveries blurs the boundaries between science and history, encompassing Neanderthal discoveries, microbiology, the possible extinction of redheads, dead royals, race relations, criminology, evolution and eugenics. Our genomes, says writer and broadcaster Rutherford winningly, should be read less like instruction manuals and more like epic poems' -- The Bookseller This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. 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. Since scientists first read the human genome in 2001 it has been subject to all sorts of claims, counterclaims and myths. In fact, as Adam Rutherford explains, our genomes should be read not as instruction manuals, but as epic poems. DNA determines far less than we have been led to believe about us as individuals, but vastly more about us as a species. 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. 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.

• Book Type :

Humanities

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

320 pages

• ISBN - 10 :

0297609386

• A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived Published On :

25 Oct 2016

• Resource:

Textbooks, Humanities Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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