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After reading one of the worst books I’ve ever come across, Nothing In This Book Is True, But It’s Exactly How Things Are, I read a book called Everything In This Book Is True, And It’s Exactly How Things Are, more commonly known as Genome: The History Of A Species In 23 Chapters. Best book I’ve ever read, hands down. I recommend you read it. This book is not a technical breakdown or technical look into the genome. Rather, it is a book for the general public which takes a look into humanity, our history, how we work, why certain things happen, why things are the way they are, what might be possible in the future - based on what we have learned so far from studying the human genome. You do not need to have any genetic knowledge or knowledge of what the genome exactly is, there is a good primer at the beginning of the book for all this. If you have a general knowledge of what genes are and what DNA is, which everybody should, then you’re good to go with this book. This book explains a lot, you will learn many things. Really the sequencing of the genome is one of the most important/significant events in the history of the human race, and seemingly nobody knows about it or has any idea of the revolution that is underway and will change the world. Extremely good, extremely interesting, you’ll learn a lot of things about humans that will amaze you. Everybody should read this book. It’ll be a while, if ever, that I come across a book about anything that beats this.

Thanks to Professor Merrifield, my College Anthropolgy teacher for recommending this.