A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford

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.

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived will upend your thinking on Neanderthals, evolution, royalty, race, and even redheads. (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.

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 . . . where do we go from here?

Adam Rutherford is a geneticist, science writer, and presenter who specializes in genetics. He studied genetics at University College London and was a member of a team that discovered the first known genetic cause of a kind of childhood blindness during his doctorate on the developing eye. He has written and presented several award-winning series and programs for the BBC, including the flagship monthly Radio 4 show Inside Science, The Cell for BBC Four, and Playing God (on the advent of synthetic biology) for the leading science series Horizon, in addition to writing for The Guardian's science section. He's also the author of How to Reason With a Racist, an insightful guide to what contemporary genetics can and can't tell us about human uniqueness; The Book of Humans, a new evolutionary history that explores the fundamental paradox of the human animal; A Short History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction; and Creation, on the origins of life and skepticism.

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ISBN 13	9781615194049
ISBN 10	1615194045
Title	A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
Author	Adam Rutherford
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Experiment
Year published	2017-10-03
Number of pages	416
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