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  • A Genetic Journey
  • Written by: Alistair Moffat
  • Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
  • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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This unique "fusion of science and the physical history" traces the story of the Scots through their DNA (Sunday Herald).

An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies, and this book traces the ancient story of Scotland from that scientific viewpoint. The mushrooming of genetic studies, of DNA analysis, is rewriting history in spectacular fashion.

In Scotland: A Genetic Journey, Alistair Moffat explores the history that is printed on our genes, and in a remarkable new approach, uncovers the detail of where Scots are from, where they have journeyed, and who they are - and in so doing, vividly colors in a DNA map of Scotland.
©2011, 2017 Alistair Moffat (P)2022 Tantor
Anthropology World Great Britain Biological Sciences
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  • 2023-04-24

Lengthy, too much extraneous information

I was hoping for a scientific approach to the topic, but the book is more like a novel, with extraneous lengthy descriptions of nature and other unrelated content. It drags out and becomes very boring. On the other hand, they insist on reading out an irrelevant genetic sequence, which is not done even in scientific texts. I listened to just over an hour of this and now I am trying to return it.

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