A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes

"I took this book on holiday with me a couple of years ago and simply couldn’t put it down. I kept annoying my wife by sharing with her a lot of the ‘did you know . . . ?’ nuggets I was reading. Rutherford tells the story of our genetic makeup, how it has shaped human history and what history can now tell us about our genes. It’s a hugely illuminating and fresh take on who we are and how we came to be."