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A Short History Of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe

Author: Johannes Krause & Thomas Trappe. Caroline Waight, trans.

A Short History Of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe

Author: Johannes Krause & Thomas Trappe. Caroline Waight, trans.

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Item #: D31442
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 2021
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9780593229422
Eight millennia ago, Anatolian farmers migrated into Europe, displacing the dark-skinned, blue-eyed hunter-gatherers who preceded them; we now know that their DNA is a core genetic component of people with contemporary European ancestry. Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, introduces us to the earliest Europea... More
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Eight millennia ago, Anatolian farmers migrated into Europe, displacing the dark-skinned, blue-eyed hunter-gatherers who preceded them; we now know that their DNA is a core genetic component of people with contemporary European ancestry. Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, introduces us to the earliest Europeans, including the Aurignacians, artisans who carved flutes more than 40,000 years ago; the Varna, who buried their loved ones with gold; and the Gravettians, big-game hunters who perished in the ice age. As Krause argues here, science makes nonsense of eugenics and "pure" bloodlines—who we are is a question of culture, not biological inheritance.

"A captivating and informative look at the origins and future of humanity…. Krause and Trappe make complicated scientific processes accessible to lay readers."—Publishers Weekly


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