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A SHORT HISTORY OF HUMANITY - JOHANNES KRAUSE T...

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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