A Short History of Humanity by Johannes Krause & Thomas Trappe, translated by Caroline Waight
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe (2021) is, as one might expect from the title, a surprisingly concise volume covering a lot of ground. It is also, thanks to the combined efforts of its co-authors — Johannes Krause, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology; and Thomas Trappe, a science journalist — an authoritative, informative, accessible, and engaging work of non-fiction.
The focus of the book is archaeogenetics,
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I might say "formulaic" actually.
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