In the strands of history : The Gene Odyssey. Review of the book by Évelyne Heyer (L’odyssée des gènes, Paris, Flammarion, 2020)

“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past”. George Orwell’s famous phrase, taken from his magnum opus “1984” and quoted by Évelyne Heyer in her book L’odyssée des gènes, seems to perfectly illustrate the general point of view of this anthropologist of (…)