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The Stories in Our Genes
Adam Rutherford: A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived Adam Rutherford: A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived Adam Rutherford: A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived

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… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 2016

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Adam Rutherford: A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived

'For every complicated problem there is a solution that is simple, direct, understandable, and wrong.' (H.L. Mencken)
Nagyon jó volt pár napig, napi néhány órában olvasgatni ezt a könyvet. Egy nagyon bonyolult témáról van szó, amit nem lehet leegyszerűsíteni (ahogy a fenti idézet is állítja).
Az evolúcióról szól ez a könyv, a géneinkről, a jövőnkről és a múltunkról.
Nem teljes a tudásunk a témáról, ezért mindig vannak új felfedezések ezen a téren, de még így is nagyon nehezen tudom felfogni hogyan lehet az, hogy emberek tagadják ezt az elméletet.


Népszerű idézetek

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And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections. And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections. And then there are huge chunks of DNA that are just repeated sections.

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Are we still evolving?’ is a question that geneticists get asked a lot. Here is the answer: yes.

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As long as humans keep having sex and that sex results in more humans, then we are evolving. We can avoid these evolutionary changes no more easily than we can change the weather.


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