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A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the human story retold through our genes /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rutherford, Adam (Author)
Other Authors: Mukherjee, Siddhartha (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : The Experiment, LLC, [2017]
Subjects:
Human genome.
Genomics > History.
Evolution (Biology)
DNA > History.
Human beings > Origin.
Human evolution.
Genome, Human > genetics.
Genomics > history.
Biological Evolution.
DNA > history.
DNA > Popular works.
REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry.
SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
DNA.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Part one: How we came to be. Horny and mobile ; The first European Union ; These American lands ; When we were kings
  • Part two: Who we are now. The end of race ; The most wondrous map ever produced by humankind ; Fate ; A short introduction to the future of humankind
  • Glossary.