![]() Secondly, to demonstrate that almost everything on the subject that one might read in the popular press is at best lazily misconstrued, and at worst wilful, meretricious hogwash. First and foremost, to provide a layperson’s guide to the basics of, and recent advances in, his field. Rutherford’s particular expertise is genetics, and his purpose in A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived is twofold. He is also often very funny, alive to the absurd lengths to which humans are willing to go in order to disbelieve the facts. In both books, Rutherford is an engaging and accessible narrator, able to deploy his expertise as a torch with which to illuminate a complicated subject. We can probably afford to be a little forgiving of those who, contemplating such awesome improbabilities, perceive the qualities of miracle.Īdam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived is his second book-length fathoming of the unfathomable, following 2013’s excellent Creation: The Origin of Life / The Future of Life. Every person reading this – every person not reading this, for that matter – is the consequence of a chain of meetings and matings reaching back over aeons. ![]() The odds against you existing are astonishing. ![]() You can find out more and subscribe here.Ī Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes (W&N) by Adam Rutherford This article is a preview from the Winter 2016 edition of New Humanist. ![]()
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