A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
The Experiment · Print & ebook · September 4, 2018
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.
- Who it’s for
- For readers interested in how DNA reshapes the human story
- Themes
- Genomics and human history, Ancestry and origins, Human migration
- Genres
- Genetics & Genomics, Evolution, Physical Anthropology
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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.
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Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human story—from 100,000 years ago to the present.
Where it sits
| Genetics & Genomics | 98% |
|---|---|
| Physical Anthropology | 48% |
| Evolution | 47% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Family Trees & Genealogy
- Genetics & Genomics
- How Cultures Work
- Authors
- Adam Rutherford
- Publisher
- The Experiment
- Published
- September 4, 2018
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Genomics and human history · Ancestry and origins · Human migration
- Reading lane
- Family Trees & Genealogy