A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford literarture his first since the New

his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of DecemberThe 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power

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A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford literarture his first since the NewA brilliant, authoritative, surprising, captivating introduction to human genetics. You'll be spellbound' Brian Cox. 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,