The Genetic Book of the Dead


The Genetic Book of the Dead

From one of the world´s great
science writers and biologists: a
book that reflects on the vast arc of
evolutionary history and what it tells
us about life on earth. How much do
we really know about our past? For
centuries, we have yearned to learn
more about our ancestors and piece
together the story of how we came to
be. But language can only record so
much. And fossils can be even
harder to decipher. We are left
groping in the dark, forced to
speculate and reconstruct ways of
life based on fragments of
information. But what if there was a
better way? In The Genetic Book of
the Dead, Richard Dawkins explores
the untapped potential of DNA to
transform and transcend our
understanding of e