A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

The fully updated edition of a science history classic

"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 Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

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. But those stories have always been locked away—until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has completely upended what we thought we knew about ourselves. Now, in this completely revised and updated 10th Anniversary Edition, acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human story—from 100,000 years ago to the present.