Screen LibraryA 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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The Experiment, LLC,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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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 Nea |
| Item Description: | Originally published with subtitle: The stories in our genes. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016. With new foreword. |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-384) and index. |
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9781615194049 1615194045 9781615194940 1615194940 |
| Index Number: | QH445 |
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Q78 Q987 |
| Call Number: | Q987/R975 |
| 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. |