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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

By Adam Rutherford

The Stories in Our Genes. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2016.

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The eye-opening and sometimes controversial tale of humanity that interweaves a geneticist’s hard data with stories from history, asking questions we’re still learning the answers to while transforming the way we think about evolution.

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Who should read A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

Scientists • historians • teachers • students • biologists • anyone with an interest in evolution

About the author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

British scientist Adam Rutherford holds a PhD in genetics from University College London, where he has spent time as an Honorary Senior Research Associate in the Division of Biosciences. Rutherford is a science author and broadcaster, with several documentaries to his name. He is the two-time recipient of the Wellcome Book Prize for his texts on genetics.

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