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A radical retelling of humanity's restless, genetically mingled history based on the revolutionary science of archaeogenetics. In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and journalist Thomas Trappe offer a new way of understanding our past, present, and future. Krause is a pioneer in the revolutionary new science of archaeogenetics, archaeology augmented by revolutionary DNA sequencing technology, which has allowed scientists to uncover a new version of human history reaching back more than 100,000 years. Using this technology to re-examine human bones from the distant past, Krause has been able to map not only the genetic profiles of the dead, but also their ancient journeys. In this concise narrative he tells us their long-forgotten stories of migration and intersection. It's well known that many human populations carry genetic material from Neanderthals; but, as Krause and his colleagues discovered, we also share DNA with a newly uncovered human form, the Denisovans. We know now that a wave of farmers from Anatolia migrated into Europe 8,000 years ago, essentially displacing the dark-skinned, blue-eyed hunter-g

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Author

Johannes Krause - undifferentiated, Thomas Trappe, Caroline Waight, Johannes Krause

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593229446

Category

science

Subjects

Anthropology, Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.4 / 5 (344 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14