Little Atoms 539 - Adam Rutherford’s The Book of Humans

Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer and broadcaster. He studied genetics at University College London, and during his PhD on the developing eye, he was part of a team that identified the first genetic cause of a form of childhood blindness. He has written and presented many award-winning series and programmes for the BBC, including the flagship weekly Radio 4 programme Inside Science and The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry with Dr Hannah Fry. He is the author Creation, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, and most recently, The Book of Humans.