What do you think you are?: the science of what makes you you - Hardcover

Clegg, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1785786237 ISBN 13: 9781785786235

Verlag: Icon Books, 2020

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The popular science equivalent of the TV show Who Do You Think You Are?

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Brian Clegg is a popular science writer whose Dice World and A Brief History of Infinity were both longlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. He has written for publications including Nature, The Times and BBC Focus.

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You are definitely descended from royalty - if you have European ancestors, for example, Charlemagne is in your family tree

The hydrogen in your body was created soon after the Big Bang, around 13.5 billion years ago

The elements in your body are worth around £125

Your conscious mind only deals with a tiny fraction of what your brain does

Around 50 percent of what makes you you is genetic and epigenetic - yet you share 96% of your genes with a chimp (and 60 with a banana)

A big part of what makes you what you are (as opposed to the descendant of a dinosaur) was a cosmic impact on the Earth around 65 million years ago

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Icon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1785786237
• ISBN 13: 9781785786235
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar