DNA Anomalies review 1/31/2025

DNA Anomalies

Preston, Steve

2.00 stars

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read, historical-fiction

This experience highlights why it's not a good idea to choose an audiobook on the go. First, it turns out to be a 4-hour slide presentation, and unfortunately, the audiobook doesn't come with a PDF. Luckily, the Kindle version was inexpensive, so I decided to buy it to better understand the content. However, the book is not focused on DNA research in the way I expected based on the blurbs. While it does discuss the evolution of haplogroups, the main argument seems to be that we are the mutated remnants of a race that left Earth around 5,000 years ago after a nuclear war. To add to the outlandish nature of his claims, the author suggests there was another war before that one which triggered the Younger Dryas, and he posits that the Pleistocene races were responsible for creating dinosaurs and other strange creatures through gene editing. Although the haplogroup information may be of some interest, you could likely find quicker and better information through a simple Google search than by pulling it from this book.