A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived : The Stories in Our Genes - Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition

by Rutherford, Adam | Popular science
Published 21/05/2026 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 512 pages
197 x 129 x 34mm | 380g

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. In this captivating journey through the expanding landscape of genetics, Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes now tell us about human history, and what history can now tell 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.