A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes

by Adam Rutherford

If you’re a man, you have a Y chromosome that was largely unchanged from your father and from his father and so on back through time.

“For every complicated problem there is a solution that is simple, direct, understandable, and wrong.” H. L. Mencken

In the human genome, in total, there are around 3 billion individual letters of DNA.

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. “Little Gidding,” T. S. Eliot