Screen LibraryA brief history of everyone who ever lived : the stories in our genes /
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - b...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. 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. Since scientists first read the human genome in 2001 it has been subject to all sorts of claims, counterclaims and myths. In fact, as Adam Rutherford explains, our genomes should be read not as instruction manuals, but as epic poems. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 419 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-400) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780297609384 (paperback) : 0297609386 (paperback) 9780297609377 (hardback) 0297609378 (hardback) 9780297609391 (eBook) 0297609394 (eBook) |
| Index Number: | GN281 |
| CLC: |
Q78-49 Q987-49 |
| Call Number: | Q987-49/R975 |