A short history of humanity

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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. We also meet our ancestors, from those many of us have heard of - such as Homo Erectus and the Neanderthals - to the wildly unfamiliar but no less real: the recently discovered Denisovans, who ranged across Asia and, like humans, interbred with Neanderthals; the Aurignacians, skilled artists who, 40,000 years ago, brought about an extraordinary transformation in what our species could invent and create; the Varna, who buried their loved ones with gold long before the Pharaohs of Egypt did; and the Gravettians, big game hunters who were Europe's most successful early settlers until they perished in the face of the toughest opponent humanity had ever faced: the ice age. As well as being a radical new telling of our shared story, this book is a reminder that the global problems that keep us awake at night - climate catastrophe; the sudden emergence of deadly epidemics; refugee crises; ethnic conflict; over-population - are all things we've faced, and overcome, before.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 08 april 2021

Aantal pagina's: 288

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Johannes Krause

Tweede Auteur: Thomas Trappe

Hoofduitgeverij: W H Allen

Eerste Vertaler: Caroline Waight

Tweede Vertaler: Caroline Waight

Originele titel: Die Reise unserer Gene

AI-gegenereerd: Nee

Editie: 1

Product breedte: 135 mm

Product hoogte: 21 mm

Product lengte: 216 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 135 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 21 mm

Verpakking lengte: 216 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 286 g

eWaste: Nee

EAN: 9780753554951

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