A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived

This is a story about you.

It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also out collective story, because in every one of our genomes we carry the history of our species – births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration and a lot of sex.