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Meeting with professor of genetic anthropology Evelyne Heyer, to trace the entire history of humanity through the odyssey of the tens of thousands of genes that make us who we are. All cousins, all from immigrants and all different… How to trace the secret life of our genes and why it’s in our DNA?
Let’s try to understand what makes us what we are: beings that are both unique and singular, but also heirs and carriers of the entire history of humanity and of the living. Why is it all in our DNA? In 2 meters of DNA very precisely, 46 chromosomes and 25,000 genes differentiate us and connect us at the same time… It is in the secret and the mysteries of our genes (which are not only human but also bacterial), that we trains our guest Evelyne Heyer
With Evelyne Heyer professor at the MNHN in population genetics for her book The secret life of genes published by Flammarion