A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the human story retold through our genes / Adam Rutherf...
A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the human story retold through our genes / Adam Rutherf...
A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the human story retold through our genes / Adam Rutherford ; foreword by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
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New York : The Experiment, 2017.
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G 2017/6746
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
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 -- Epilogue.
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Publisher
New York : The Experiment, 2017.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
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 wh...
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A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the human story retold through our genes / Adam Rutherford ; foreword by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
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Originally published with subtitle: The stories in our genes. London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016. With new foreword.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-384) and index.
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G 2017/6746
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74VKVGGyPmdg
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ISBN
9781615194049 (hardcover)
1615194045 (hardcover)
DDC
611.0181663
MMS ID
991024154211702626
