Genes determine less than we have been led to believe about us as individuals but vastly more about us as a species. Drawing together the latest discoveries in this rapidly changing area of science, Adam Rutherford shows that in fact our genomes should be read not like instruction manuals but more like epic poems. Since scientists first read the human genome in 2001, it has been subject to all sorts of claims, counterclaims and myths. But it is also our collective story, because in each of our genomes we carry the history of the whole of our species. It is unique to you, as it is for every one of the 100 billion modern humans who has ever drawn breath. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be.
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