National Book Critics Circle Award--2017 Nonfiction Finalist "Nothing less than a tour de force--a heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling."--The New York Times Book Review, Editor\'s Choice A National Geographic Best Book of 2017 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.
He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher..
Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Gene and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies.
His first book, Creation, on the origin of life and synthetic biology, was published in 2013 to outstanding reviews and was short-listed for the Wellcome Trust Prize.
He has written and presented many award-winning series and programs for the BBC, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 program Inside Science, The Cell for BBC Four, and Playing God (on the rise of synthetic biology) for the leading science series Horizon, as well as writing for the science pages of the Guardian.
He studied genetics at University College London, and during his Ph D on the developing eye, he was part of a team that identified the first genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness.
About the Author: Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster.
Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the Human story--from 100, 000 years ago to the present.
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.
But those stories have always been locked away--until now.
National Book Critics Circle Award--2017 Nonfiction Finalist "Nothing less than a tour de force--a heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling."--The New York Times Book Review, Editor\'s Choice A National Geographic Best Book of 2017 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