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Adam Rutherford

Adam Rutherford is a geneticist and the author of “A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes.”

Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature—A New Evolutionary History
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What makes humans unique among animals

Adam Rutherford

Elizabeth Warren (AP/Charles Krupa)

Elizabeth Warren’s pointless DNA test: Why genetic heritage is irrelevant to identity and politics

Adam Rutherford

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How genetics undermines “scientific” arguments for racism

Adam Rutherford