02849nam a22002657i 4500 Rebiun34990451 240228s2024 sp ab b 001 u spa d 9788412791501 ESEHU eng rdc ESEHU QH445.2 R88 2017 Rutherford, Adam 13497 Breve historia de todos los que han vivido : el relato de nuestros genes / Adam Rutherford ; traducción de Joan Lluís Riera Barcelona : Pasado y Presente, 2024 352 p. : il., mapa ; 23 cm Imperdibles Traducción de: A brief history of everyone who ever lived : the stories in our genes Includes bibliographical references and index Esta es una historia sobre ti. La historia de quién eres y cómo has llegado a ser quien eres. Tu historia es única; como lo es la del resto de 10 billones de humanos que alguna vez respiraron. Adam Rutherford, genetista de la Universidad de Londres, ha escrito un libro divertido, apasionante y lúcido que abre las puertas a concebir nuestra existencia de un modo nuevo y fascinante. Nuestro genoma no debe leerse como un manual de instrucciones sino como un poema épico. Con un lenguaje sencillo y emotivo, Rutherford consigue explicar en qué consiste la mayor revolución científica a escala humana de la historia de la humanidad. Sin duda este libro se convertirá en un clásico de la divulgación científica como lo fueron los libros de Stephen Jay Gould o los de Richard Dawkins This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. Unique to you, as it is to each of the one hundred billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath, it is also our shared story. For within each of our genomes lies the chronicle of our species — of births and deaths, disease and war, famine, migration, and a great deal of sex. Since scientists first decoded the human genome in 2001, it has become the subject of countless claims, counterclaims, and misconceptions. Yet, as Adam Rutherford argues, our genomes are not instruction manuals to be followed, but epic poems to be interpreted. Our DNA tells us far less than we might imagine about ourselves as individuals — and far more about us as a species. In this compelling exploration of the ever-evolving field of genetics, Rutherford reveals what our genes can now teach us about history, and what history, in turn, reveals about our genes. From Neanderthals to murder, red hair to race, dead kings to plague, evolution to epigenetics — this is a lucid and revelatory portrait of who we are, and how we came to be. Genome, Human--genetics 25171 Genomics--history 25172 Biological Evolution 25052 DNA--history 25173 lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2025-05-09 0 QH445.2 RUT B05811 2025-05-09 1 2025-05-09 1 4646 4646