Adam Rutherford
Book Shambles
Geneticist, author and broadcaster Dr Adam Rutherford joins Robin and Josie in the studio this week to talk about many things including his latest book, The Book of Humans. They chat about the peril of writing books that will go out of date, bad misuses of genetics, who was racist even by Victorian standards and Adam tries to remember the difference between The Odyssey and The Iliad.
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Reading List
Adam recommends:
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Odyssey by Homer
The Squirrel Girl comics
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Robin recommends:
The Book of Humans by Adam Rutherford
Beyond Weird by Philip Ball
I’m a Joke and So Are You by Robin Ince
Neanderthal Man by Svante Pääbo
Hello World by Hannah Fry
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
Bring on the Apocalypse by George Monbiot
Extreme Measures by Martin Brookes
Josie recommends:
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford
Cold Spring Harbor by Richard Yates
Story of a Secret State by Jan Karski
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