The most wondrous map ever produced by humanking - 6. When we were kings - Part Two: Who We Are Now: 4. Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-400) and index 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
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. DNA determines far less than we have been led to believe about us as individuals, but vastly more about us as a species. In fact, as Adam Rutherford explains, our genomes should be read not as instruction manuals, but as epic poems. Since scientists first read the human genome in 2001 it has been subject to all sorts of claims, counterclaims and myths. 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. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. 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. (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. Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human story?from 100,000 years ago to the present.Ī Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived?will upend your thinking on Neanderthals, evolution, royalty, race, and even redheads. 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.
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.īut those stories have always been locked away?until now.
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