The Secrets of our DNA: How Genetics has Changed the World From the Award-Winning Scientist - Hardcover

King, Professor Turi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857529102 ISBN 13: 9780857529107

Verlag: Doubleday, 2026

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'Turi King combines fascinating history and science with brilliant storytelling' - Professor Alice Roberts

From the award-winning scientist who identified the bones of Richard III in a Leicester carpark and genetically analysed Hitler, discover the myth-busting book that provides a window into the world of modern genetics and reveals the extraordinary true stories and mysteries solved using the power of DNA.

AS SEEN ON THE CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY HITLER’S DNA: BLUEPRINT OF A DICTATOR

DNA has become the key to unlocking crime and immigration cases, it is essential to our food safety, to the protection of threatened wildlife, and to resolving questions of history and archaeology, ancestry and even, for some, identity.

Now the UK’s preeminent authority on DNA and genetic research, Turi King takes us through fascinating true stories - from mistaken dinosaur DNA to the O. J. Simpson trial, from Dolly the sheep to Angelina Jolie’s BRCA1 gene – to reveal the fascinating ways in which DNA has solved mysteries and shaped our world today.

King shows us how we are all interconnected and why we must all benefit from this exciting and rapidly evolving science. She also reminds us that, while our DNA can yield information about genetic predisposition to disease and other conditions, it need not be our destiny. And, perhaps most importantly, she shows us why should all be a part of the discussion as to how new genetic discoveries are utilised for the benefit of all life on earth.

Fascinating, compassionate, and entirely captivating The Secrets of Our DNA is the must-read book about how genetics has changed the world.

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Professor Turi King is renowned for presenting complex findings on DNA and genetic science in an accessible and compelling way and has won awards for her public engagement in science. She is Director of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath and was previously Genetics and Public Engagement at the University of Leicester. She is an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Member of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences and a Member of the International Society of Forensic Geneticists. She is well known both for her academic work leading the genetics and identification Richard III, advising on the case of Mary Jane Kelly (the last victim of Jack the Ripper), leading the project on sequencing Hitler’s genome as well as her media work co-presenting BBC’s DNA Family Secrets, as well as presenting podcasts, both her own and for the likes of Audible and the BBC.

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• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0857529102
• ISBN 13: 9780857529107
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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