Johannes Krause is a founding director of the Max Planck
Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, and is
now heading the department of archaeogenetics at the Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and
the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of
the Ancient Mediterranean. His research has been featured in
numerous television, radio, print, and online media sources,
including The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC, Discovery
Channel, National Geographic, and more.
Thomas Trappe is one of Germany’s leading health
journalists. He is the editor in chief at Berlin’s Tagesspiegel,
where he covers politics, health policy, and science. Before
co-authoring A Short History of Humanity, Trappe had reported on
Johannes Krause’s research numerous times, having followed his work
for many years.
“A highly readable, personal guide to the twists and turns in
unravelling ancient DNA: Krause and Trappe expertly recount
the story of archaeogenetics to reveal how this new field
has utterly transformed understanding of our deep
past.”—Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of Kindred: Neanderthal Life,
Love, Death and Art
“One of those books that stops you dead in your tracks and
makes you say out loud: Why didn’t I know that before? So easy to
read. So logically argued. So satisfyingly sensible and
thought-provoking. Read it, think about it, and then read it
again. An absolute revelation.”—Sue Black, author of All That
Remains
“A captivating and informative look at the origins and future
of humanity. . . . Krause and Trappe make complicated scientific
processes accessible to lay readers, and offer hope that the
ongoing study of ancient genetics and the development of new
technologies such as genome editing will help to fight
pathogens.”—Publishers Weekly
“A Short History of Humanity is an eloquent and timely reminder
that viruses and other pathogens of infectious disease are merely
fellow-travellers in an epic journey that began when the first
human migrants left Africa around 200,000 years ago. The solution
to pandemics is not to close borders in the hope of keeping viruses
out but to recognise that we are a fundamentally peripatetic
species united in our shared genetic inheritance and common
humanity.”—Mark Honigsbaum, author of The Pandemic Century
“A fascinating story about the ancient history of migrations & the
role played by terrible pandemics in our recent evolution. DNA
evidence in history can be as powerful as written
evidence.”—Richard Dawkins
“A valuable contribution to our understanding of who we are and how
we got here.”—Tim Marshall, author of the international bestseller
Prisoners of Geography
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