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A short history of humanity : how migration made us who we are

Krause, Johannes, 1980-2021
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Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving. In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, Chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a new way of understanding our past, present and future. Marshalling unique insights from archaeogenetics, an emerging new discipline that allows us to read our ancestors' DNA like journals chronicling personal stories of migration, Krause charts two millennia of adaption, movement and survival, culminating in the triumph of Homo Sapiens as we swept through Europe and beyond in successive waves of migration - developing everything from language, the patriarchy, disease, art and a love of pets as we did so.
Main title:
Imprint:
London : W.H. Allen, 2021.
Collation:
272 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780753554944 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
304.8304.8 KRAU
Language:
English
BRN:
2281823
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