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    A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

    Adam Rutherford

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    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.

    In this captivating journey through the expanding landscape of genetics, Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes now tell us about human history, and what history can now tell 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.

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    • I very much enjoyed and admired . . . A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived - OBSERVER Books of the Year 2016An effervescent work, brimming with tales and confounding ideas . . . will leave you swooning - GuardianA soaring book - The TimesA thoroughly entertaining history of Homo sapiens and its DNA in a manner that displays popular science writing at its best - ObserverMagisterial, informative and delightfulWide-ranging, witty, full of surprises and studded with sparkling insights

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    Adam Rutherford

    Adam Rutherford

    Dr Adam Rutherford is a scientist, writer and broadcaster. He has written and presented award-winning series and programmes for the BBC, including Radio 4's Inside Science and The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry with Dr Hannah Fry. He is the author of Creation, shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, The Book of Humans, the Sunday Times bestselling How to Argue With a Racist and the co-author of Rutherford and Fry's Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged).

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