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A fascinating excursion through history seen through a geneticist's eyes... eccentric, eclectic and engrossing.' ROBIN MCKIE, Observer
IN THE BLOOD shows how biologists are beginning to study problems once confined to philosophers, psychologists and politicians. It deals with fate and free will; with life and death and the myths and truths about ancestors. It even explains why sex and taxes are the same thing. Steve Jones' genetic best-seller shows that although science cannot always provide the answers, it asks questions about ourselves that can be explored in a new and entertaining way.
'Another winner... Steve Jones has written The Story of O. And also of A, not to mention B and even AB. He has girdled the globe in pursuit of hemoglobin [he] makes his journey through history and landscape, from Armageddon to Great Zimbabwe, from Albi's Cathar cathedral to Zaire and Zion, from Hirohito to the Hottentots, from the Mormons of Utah to John Major and Baroness Thatcher (who share a common ancestor and a joint fifth cousin, who writes country and western songs). He deals with understanding and misunderstandings and genes and genealogy, the tougher science hived-off into read-me-later modules so as not to interrupt the narrative.' TIM RADFORD, Guardian
ISBN:9780002555128
