Adam Rutherford
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In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species--births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. But those stories have always been locked away--until now. Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely...
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Racist pseudoscience is on the rise, fueling hatred, feeding nationalism, and seeping into the discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Adam Rutherford's penetrating guide shows people how being a responsible and enlightened citizen on the matter of race today requires them to know what modern genetics actually can and can't tell about human difference.
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Current
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[2013]
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English
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"How scientists are closer than ever to not only uncovering the mystery of how life was created, but to replicating that moment Within the first billion years after this planet formed, a spark of life spontaneously ignited, turning inanimate chemicals into what we now would recognize as a living thing: a cell. Four billion years later, science has cataloged more than a million species. Science writer Adam Rutherford shows how unprecedented advances...
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W.W. Norton & Company
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2022.
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English
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"The complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it (minus the boring parts). Despite our clever linguistic abilities, humans are spectacularly ill-equipped to comprehend what's happening in the universe. Our senses and intuition routinely mislead us. The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything (Abridged) tells the story of how we came to suppress our monkey minds and perceive the true nature of reality. Written with wit and humor,...
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[2023]
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English
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"How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Inspired by Darwin's ideas about evolution, the concept of race purification through eugenics arose in Victorian England and quickly spread to America, where it was embraced by presidents, funded by Gilded Age monopolists, and enshrined into racist American laws that became the ideological cornerstone of the Third Reich. Despite this horrific legacy, eugenics...
6) Humanimal: how Homo sapiens became nature's most paradoxical creature : a new evolutionary history
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The Experiment
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2019.
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English
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The Experiment
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2020.
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English
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"An exploration of our dual identity as members of the animal kingdom and yet completely distinct from other animals, synthesizing the latest research on genetics, sex, migration, and more. It reveals what unequivocally makes us animals--and what also makes us truly extraordinary in contrast to them"--
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The Experiment
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2018.
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English
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"Science fact, not science fiction, on the cutting-edge developments that are already changing the course of our future. Every day, scientists conduct pioneering experiments with the potential to transform how we live. Yet it isn't every you hear from the scientists themselves! Now, award-winning author Jim Al-Khalili and his team of top-notch experts explain how today's earthshaking discoveries will shape our world tomorrow--and beyond. The scientists...