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Aterrifyingdisease,orthenextstepinhumanevolution?Threescientistsmustbattletofindthetruthinthisheart-stoppingtechnothriller.MitchRafelsonmakesamajordiscoveryhighintheAlps–thepreservedbodiesofaNeanderthalfamilywithahumanchild.KayeLanginvestigatesamassgraveintheCaucasus–thebodiesaremutated.ChristopherDickentracksamysteriousflu-likediseasethatcausespregnantwomentomiscarry.Together,thesethreescientistsdiscoverthatso-calledjunkgenes,dormantinourDNAformillionsofyears,arewakingup.AsignalfromDarwin’sradiohastriggeredthenextstepinhumanevolution.Thewomenwhomiscarrybecomeinexplicablypregnantagain.However,thistimetheyarecarriersofHomosapiensnovus.Butthereismasspanic,officialdenial,draconianmeasuresagainsttheterrible‘disease’.OnlyMitch,KayeandDickencansolvetheevolutionarypuzzlethatwilldeterminethefutureofthehumanrace,ifafutureexistsatall.