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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
Contributor(s): Rutherford, Adam (Author), Mukherjee, Siddhartha (Foreword by)

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ISBN: 1615194940     ISBN-13: 9781615194940
Publisher: Experiment
OUR PRICE: $18.00  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Reference | Genealogy & Heraldry
Dewey: 611.018
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" L (0.95 lbs) 416 pages
Features: Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product
 
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Publisher Description:
National Book Critics Circle Award--2017 Nonfiction Finalist

"Nothing less than a tour de force--a heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling."--The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice

A National Geographic Best Book of 2017

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.


Contributor Bio(s): Rutherford, Adam: - Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London, and during his PhD on the developing eye, he was part of a team that identified the first known genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness. As well as writing for the science pages of the Guardian, he has written and presented many award-winning series and programs for the BBC, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 program Inside Science, The Cell for BBC Four, and Playing God (on the rise of synthetic biology) for the leading science series Horizon. He is also the author of Humanimal, a new evolutionary history that explores the profound paradox of the "human animal"; A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and Creation, on the origin of life and synthetic biology, which was short-listed for the Wellcome Book Prize.
 
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