A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived
The Stories in Our Genes
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the acclaimed science writer and broadcaster, a dazzling tour of the latest genetic discoveries which are blurring the boundaries between science and history
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From the acclaimed science writer and broadcaster, a dazzling tour of the latest genetic discoveries which are blurring the boundaries between science and history
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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. DNA determines far less than we have been led to believe about us as individuals, but vastly more about us as a species.
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. 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.
Autoren-Porträt von Adam Rutherford
Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. After studying evolutionary biology at UCL, his PhD from Great Ormond St Hospital and the Institute of Child Health was on the genetics of the developing eye. He was part of a team that identified the first genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness. He then spent ten years at the editorial staff of the world's premier science journal NATURE. He has written and presented several series and programmes for BBC television and radio, including INSIDE SCIENCE, the award-winning THE CELL for BBC Four, and PLAYING GOD on the rise of synthetic biology for the leading science strand HORIZON, as well as writing for the science pages of the GUARDIAN. His first book, CREATION, on the origin of life and synthetic biology, was published in 2013 to outstanding reviews and was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize.adamrutherford.com
follow him on Twitter: @AdamRutherford
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Adam Rutherford
- 2016, 432 Seiten, Maße: 23,4 x 15,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Orion Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 0297609386
- ISBN-13: 9780297609384
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.09.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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