The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

The Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie

One of the world's great science writers and 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 centu…

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