What Do You Think You Are?

The science of what makes you you

Author: Brian Clegg

Publisher: Icon Books Ltd

Price: £18.58 / $22.95)

Release: 6 August

It’s a question we could spend our entire lives trying to answer on so many different levels. However, Brian Clegg’s scientific approach tackles what it means to be a human on the most fundamental levels. Along the evolutionary route to becoming modern-day humans, Clegg explores the atoms that have travelled through space and time to build our bodies, our genetic make-up and the creation and advancements of our consciousness.

Clegg has left no stone unturned when it comes to answering the question on the cover, and in doing so has produced a book filled with not only excellent academic insight, but also a wonderfully told story of humankind and how each of us become who we are.