Rutherford unpeels the science with elegance * NATURE * Genetics is opening up the past as never before - Adam Rutherford puts the genes in genealogy brilliantly - Matt Ridley A captivating delight. Science writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford rides that tide and traces its effects, first focusing on how genetics has enriched and in some cases upset our understanding of human evolution, then examining the revelations of recent findings, such as deep flaws in the concept of race. Excellent book! - Commander Chris Hadfield Fifteen years ago, the first sequence and analysis of the human genome was published. I learned gobs, pondered more, and re-read much. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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.
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