Johannes Krause

Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving... 'Stops you dead in your tracks ...An absolute revelation' Sue Black, bestselling author of All That RemainsIn 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.

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.

¿QUÉ DICEN NUESTROS GENES SOBRE LA ESPECIE HUMANA? ¿PODEMOS SABER DE DÓNDE VENIMOS? ¿EXISTEN LAS "PERSONAS NATIVAS"? ¿QUÉ ROL JUGÓ LA MIGRACIÓN EN LA EVOLUCIÓN? BESTSELLER DEL DIARIO ALEMÇN DER SPIEGEL El campo de la arqueogenetica esta experimentando una tremenda revolucion cientifica. Una nueva generacion de maquinas de secuenciacion de ADN esta permitiendo desentrañar los secretos ocultos de nuestros origenes, y estos descubrimientos estan transformando el mapa de la evolucion humana. En El viaje de nuestros genes, Johannes Krause, lider indiscutible de esta disciplina, pone a disposicion del lector un analisis minucioso de los ultimos avances y, con su coautor, el periodista Thomas Trappe, los vincula a los debates politicos actuales en torno a la migracion y los reasentamientos masivos, demostrando que estan lejos de ser un fenomeno moderno y argumentando que en la sociedad global esta la clave hacia el progreso, sobre todo para Europa. Ademas de responder a una serie de preguntas universales con datos practicamente irrefutables y relatar desde el descubrimiento de un nuevo eslabon humano hasta el desarrollo de las lenguas indoeuropeas, pasando por la adaptacion evolutiva a la lactosa, este