A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

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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 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. Download A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived – kino-fada.fr It s hard to find a modern book on race which will tell you what is the current scientific thinking, given the remarkable progress of genetics and the unravelling of the human genome and all that There are a thousand books on racism, but hardly any on race Isn t that curious I believe that may be because scientists realise it s a hornet s nest and they prefer not to stick their heads in.I recently heard of Nicholas Wade s A Troubling Inheritance 2014 but before I got to that one I found thi It s hard to find...That should be 3 1 2, really.Well, hm That was very British.In the sense that its assumed core audience was Brit, and a lot of the references and examples aimed at them I watch enough PBS and read enough Britlit not to be wholly at sea, but I noticed in a way that might be invisible to the intended audience The writer almost always corrects the casual assumption that his reader will b...The stories of our genes have been all over publishing right now and this is one of the best examples of how scientists can make complex subjects interesting, relevant, and fun Adam Rutherford reads his own work, something I particularly love as it enables the author to convey the passion and enthusiasm they hold for their subject in a way that no narrator can match And he s funny with it too It s one of those listening experiences where you end up feeling like you ve learnt something but had The stories of our genes have been all over publishing right now and this is one of the best examples of how scientists can make complex subjects interesting, relevant, and fun Adam Rutherford reads his own work, something I particularly love as it enables the author to convey the passion and enthusiasm they hold for their subject in a way that no narrator can match And he s funny with it too It s one of those listening experiences where you end up feeling like you ve learnt something but had a good laugh doing it He debunks myths with dedication and humour the section on the extinction of gingers is particularly amusing , explains the current status of research and knowledge, and offers the some idea about how muchthere is to learn It s truly fa...What genes are and what they tell us about people are very closely related, but not, in almost all cases, definitive This is a seam that will run throughout this book, confronting and dispelling the culturally ubiquitous idea that genes are fate, and a certain type of any one gene will determine exactly what an individual is like That this is a fallacy is universally known among geneticists, yet it is still an idea that carries a lot of cultural significance, fueled frequently by the media an What...Um timo review sobre a evolu o humana, desta vez pelo lado molecular da coisa Compila os ltimos achados de sequenciamento de genomas humanos e de humanos extintos Neandertais e Denisovanos , falando sobre como caiu o conceito de ra a, o que descobrimos sobre cor da pele, nossa fala, nosso c rebro e mais um mundo de coisas O ltimo livro que li nessa linha foi a biografia do Svante P bo, mas o P bo fica muito em torno dos neandertais s especialidade dele Enquanto este trata de humanos Um timo review sobre a evolu o humana, desta vez pelo lado molecular da coisa Compila os ltimos achados de sequenciamento de genomas humanos e de humanos extintos Neandertais e Denisovanos , falando sobre como caiu o conceito de ra a, o que descobrimos sobre cor da pele, nossa fala, nosso c rebro e mais um mundo de coisas O ltimo livro que li nessa linha foi a biografia do Svante P bo, mas o P bo fica muito em torno dos neandertais s especialidade dele Enquanto es...For every complicated problem there is a solution that is simple, direct, understandable, and wrong H.L Mencken And Biology is complex I see that it took nearly three months for me to read this My sincere apologies to Adam Rutherford, for that length of time might constitute a reflection on his ability to engage, entertain, inform and delight Not so, not so I m not sure why this stayed on my currently reading table for quite so long, because it is actually utterly fascinating And not d For every complicated problem there is a solution that is simple, direct, understandable, and wrong H.L Mencken And Biology is complex I see that it took nearly three months for me to read this My sincere apologies to Adam Rutherford, for that length of time might constitute a reflection on his ability to engage, entertain, inform and delight Not so, not so I m not sure why this stayed on my currently reading table for quite so long, be...Verdi, lisci, gialli, rugosi gli AntenatiE un libro divulgativo sulla genetica, scritto in modo abbastanza accattivante, cio veicolando le informazioni con esempi accessibili e di interesse generale L autore umanizza l argomento entrando in prima persona col suo corredo genetico, un po inglese di origini scandinave e un po indiano risultato, aspetto spagnolo o italiano A me piaciuto, ho aumentato la mia conoscenza sull argomento che trovo affascinante dal tempo dei piselli verdi e lisc Verdi, lisci, gialli, rugosi gli AntenatiE un libro divulgativo sulla genetica, scritto in modo abbastanza accattivante, cio veicolando le informazioni con esempi accessibili e di interesse generale L autore umanizza l argomento entrando in prima persona col suo corredo genetico, un po inglese di origini scandinave e un po indiano risultato, aspetto spagnolo o italiano A me piaciuto, ho aumentato la mia conoscenza sull argomento che trovo affascinante dal tempo dei piselli verdi e lisci oppure gialli e rugosi L argomento di grande attualit e di anno in anno si scoprono sempre molte cose nuove, per es sui diversi intrecci di primati avvenuti nei vari continenti che hanno portato a caratteristiche somatiche diverse oppure sulle malattie genetiche, cio su dove nel DNA risieda l errore che determina il malfunzionamento Ho scoperto che gli studiosi possono risalire lungo la genealogia di un uomo seguendo la linea maschile, basandosi sul cromosoma Y che si pu ricevere solo dal padre, opp...This book explores the latest discoveries made from are genes The human genome was first laid bare in 2003 or so, and since then a lot has happened However, this books makes abundantly clear that complex human behavior cannot be explained by genes alone It is not nature versus nurture but nature via nurture The books also picks apart our definition of race, the ones that are based on how we look It is fairly meaningless since there aredifferences in the genes within racial group This book explores the latest discoveries made from are genes The human genome was first laid bare in 2003 or so, and since then a lot has happened However, this books makes abundantly clear that complex human behavior cannot be explained by genes alone It is not nature versus nurture but nature via nurture The books also picks apart our definition of race, the on...It is really difficult for me to articulate my feelings after I had read this book I found this book fascinating in the first half which focused on what genes can tell us about the origin of our species, especially the bits discussing the evidence found in the genome of ancient remains The tone was very humorous and quite sarcastic and it was just a lot of fun Unfortunately, the second half focusing on race and wh...My thanks go out to NetGalley and The Experiment for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.Marvellous book, and I couldn t get enough of it The author does a great job rounding up exactly what makes us, humans, unique and at the same time homogeneous My favourite sections were of course on our relation to other species of Hominids and the failed attempts by some scientists to show correlation between genetics and predisposal to criminal behaviour Written in an My thanks go out to NetGalley and The Experiment for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.Marvellous book, and I couldn t get enough of it The author does a great job rounding up exactly what makes us, humans, unique and at the same time homogeneous My favourite section...

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
  • English
  • 24 May 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 432 pages
  • 0297609378
  • Adam Rutherford
  • A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived