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A Short History of Humanity

A Short History of Humanity

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Authors: Johannes Krause, Thomas Trappe

9780753554944 | HB | pp. 288 | 2021 | Ebury Publishing

A Short History of Humanity provides new and interesting insight into humanity through the fascinating field of archaeogenetics. Discover a new way of understanding our past, present and future…

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9780753554944 | Hardback | 288 | 2021 | Ebury Publishing

A Short History of Humanity provides new and interesting insight into humanity through the fascinating field of archaeogenetics. Discover a new way of understanding our past, present and future...

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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.

Authors:

Johannes Krause, Thomas Trappe
ISBN:

9780753554944
Binding:

Hardback
Pages:

288
Year of Publication:

2021
Publisher:

Ebury Publishing
Edition:

First
Condition:

New
Country of Origin:

India

About the Authors

Johannes Krause is the director of the newly founded Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity in Jena. He worked on the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome. In 2010 he and his team discovered the Denisova Man, a prehistoric man. The science journal Nature described him as "rising star in ancient DNA research".

Thomas Trappe is a political journalist but has frequently worked in science journalism and reported several times on Johannes Krause's research.

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