![]() ![]() It’s all really happened in the last 10 years – mostly in the last 2 years. How has the science of DNA changed what we understand about our origins and how recent are we talking that these changes have come about?Īdam - It’s not an exaggeration to say that genomics has revolutionised palaeoanthropology, so the study of the evolution of humans. ![]() Kat - We hear a lot about all these things like 23andMe, you can get your genome done, people seem to be extracting DNA out of everything they can dig out of the ground. So using DNA as a historical source to compare tests, verify, debunk what we think we know about history using the genome. It is literally true in a sense that what it does is trying fuse older academic fields which is history and archaeology with a very much newer one which is genomics. It is a brief history of everyone who ever lived. Kat Arney caught up with him to find out about the story behind his story of our story.Īdam - It’s got a certainly ambitious title. This genetic journey is the subject of a new book - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived - by writer, broadcaster and geneticist Adam Rutherford. ![]() Our amazing story is written into our genes, mixed up with genes of the other early humans - such as Neanderthals - that we met and mated with along the way. It’s been roughly 200,000 years since the first anatomically modern humans, our species Homo sapiens, arose in Africa, and since then we’ve pretty much got everywhere. ![]()
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