Product Description

This work is about human origins. It draws on all the latest knowledge from anthropology and archaeology, via genetics and evolution, to psychology and medicine. It tackles issues such as hereditary genes in criminal behaviour and homosexuality.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #243184 in Books
• Published on: 1997-03-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

About the Author
Professor Steve Jones was born in Wales, educated in Scotland and lives in London. He is Professor of Genetics at the Galton Laboratory at University College London. His first book, 'The Language of the Genes' (1993), won the Rhone-Poulenc Prize for the Best Science Book of the Year. It was based on the Reith Lectures he gave in 1991. He is Co-Editor of the 'Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Human Evolution' and joint author of The Open University final year genetics textbook.

Customer Reviews

Read this if you're interested in people
This is a fabulous read, even for those without any scientific background. Great descriptions of the genetic links between a variety of societies, cultures and religions around the world. It doesn't just focus on disease but also their evolution and how genetics has helped to elucidate this. It brings genetics to a human level that everyone can identify with. Now I want to find out what famous people I'm related to! Highly recommended.

Fantastic book
I have read this book 8 years ag and this is the second time I bought it, It makes science fun and still remains informative.

Challenges your own ideas of evolution
Steve Jones' book tries to draw together ideas and lines of evolution from many different sources, and is indeed a thoroughly engaging book. I personally disagreed with some of his reasoning, but that is in part the reason for books such as these - to make you think about the subject, and for that it succeeded.