Adam Rutherford 3 Books Collection Set - Non Fiction - Paperback

Titles in this set:

1. A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
2. How to Argue With a Racist
3. Where Are You Really From?

Description

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. Unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath, it is also our collective story. In every one of our genomes, we carry the history of our species—births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and a lot of sex. In this captivating journey through genetics, Adam Rutherford reveals what our genes tell us about human history and vice versa. From Neanderthals to murder, redheads to race, dead kings to plague, evolution to epigenetics, this is a demystifying portrait of who we are.

How to Argue With a Racist

Racist pseudoscience may be on the rise, but science is no ally to racists. Instead, science and history can be powerful allies against bigotry, granting us a clearer view of how people actually are, rather than how we judge them to be. How to Argue With a Racist dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics can and can't tell us about human difference. It is a vital manifesto for a twenty-first-century understanding of human evolution and variation, and a timely weapon against the misuse of science to justify racism.

Where Are You Really From?

Go on an extraordinary adventure through millions of years of human history and learn the story of our species from evolution to dinosaurs to YOU! Along the way, meet kings and queens, Pharaohs and Vikings, and see how far and wide humans have migrated. Discover why we're related to a super cheesy man and that no matter your skin color, language, or place of origin, we all share the same small pool of ancestors. Mind-boggling, entertaining, and illuminating, this is the epic story of you and everyone who has ever lived!