![]() ![]() Rutherford reports on the work of the moment, which has included counterintuitive discoveries such as that Scandinavian Vikings somehow did not leave much of a genetic imprint in England, that Neanderthals mated rather extensively with Homo sapiens before going extinct, and that all Europeans are related to Charlemagne in the same way that all Asians are related to Genghis Kahn. Nucleotides and introns, of all things, leave you reluctant to put the book down. Rather, Rutherford, a talented popularizer renowned across the pond as a science documentary creator and host, manages to render the unravelling of the human genetic code as a multifaceted adventure. ![]() ![]() Books on what genes tell us about the story of humanity have not been especially rare over the past couple of decades, but Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived is by no means a run of the mill entry in the genre. ![]()
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