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Zusatztext This enjoyable book has a great deal to say about our genetic code - or! more precisely! about how our knowledge of genetics is misused and misconstrued ... [Rutherford] proves an enthusiastic guide and a good story-teller Informationen zum Autor Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London! and during his PhD on the developing eye! he was part of a team that identified the first genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness. He has written and presented many award-winning series and programmes for the BBC! including the flagship weekly Radio 4 programme INSIDE SCIENCE and THE CURIOUS CASES OF RUTHERFORD & FRY with Dr Hannah Fry. He is the author CREATION! which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Prize! A BRIEF HISTORY OF EVERYONE WHO EVER LIVED! THE BOOK OF HUMANS and HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST. Klappentext Since scientists first read the human genome more than a decade ago it has been subject to all sorts of claims and counterclaims. We've been told that we inherit genes for sexuality! infidelity or criminality. But genetics just doesn't work like that. Drawing on the very latest research! Adam Rutherford reveals a picture of this rapidly changing area of science that is more complex and more fascinating than scientists had dared to imagine. There are important! urgent questions that the genome can illuminate. Where and how did humans begin? Do we inherit our intelligence? Can we change our genes? How do traits circulate within families? What is the relationship between our genomes and the people we ultimately become? The answers! which are becoming clear for the first time only now! are revelatory. Our genomes are not like instruction manuals! Adam Rutherford explains! but more like poems. Genes tell us less than we think about an individual person! but vastly more about people. Adam Rutherford's book will explore in depth this relationship between our genes and our history. Zusammenfassung 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. Since scientists first read the human genome in 2001 it has been subject to all sorts of claims! counterclaims and myths. In fact! as Adam Rutherford explains! our genomes should be read not as instruction manuals! but as epic poems. DNA determines far less than we have been led to believe about us as individuals! but vastly more about us as a species. In this captivating journey through the expanding landscape of genetics! Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes now tell us about history! and what history tells 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. ...
