Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived - Hardcover

from lostinalibrary

DNA has been much in the new in the last couple of decades - questions about eg. the future of redheads or the existence of a 'warrior' gene and its recent use in court cases. Geneticist Adam Rutherford looks at these and many more issues in his fascinating and highly readable book A Brief Histor...

from PDCRead

Genetically you are unique. However, there is nothing particularly special about being unique if everyone else is… In your 23 base pairs of DNA there are around 20,000 human protein-coding genes. To put this in perspective, a banana has 36,000... The first complete draft of the sequence was publi...

from steve02476

Wonderful book, very readable, about human genetics, and how closely all people around the globe are related to each other. Look at everyone at the UN General Assembly and say to yourself “Every single person there is my cousin!”

from Paul-the-well-read

Man's history is better told in its DNA than in its artifacts and written word, and best told in the combination of DNA evidence, collected artifacts and other data. Rutherford adds extensive DNA research findings to the already found evidence of artifacts that archaeologists have replied upon fo...

from Paul-the-well-read

Man's history is better told in its DNA than in its artifacts and written word, and best told in the combination of DNA evidence, collected artifacts and other data. Rutherford adds extensive DNA research findings to the already found evidence of artifacts that archaeologists have replied upon fo...