National Book Critics Circle Awardâ2017 Nonfiction Finalist
âNothing less than a tour de forceâa heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling.ââThe New York Times Book Review, Editorâs Choice
A National Geographic Best Book of 2017 In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our speciesâbirths, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked awayâuntil now. 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. Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human storyâfrom 100,000 years ago to the present.