A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the human story retold through our genes / Adam Rutherford ; foreword by Siddhartha Mukherjee

This work explores human history through the study of genomics, tracing the species from ancient evolution and migration to the present day. It examines how DNA evidence reshapes our understanding of ancestry, race, and the future of humankind.

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