Die Reise unserer Gene

Where do we come from? Who are we? What makes us different from others? These questions are more pressing today than ever before. Johannes Krause and Thomas Trappe trace the arc back to prehistory and tell how we became the Europeans we are.
Migration and migratory movements are not phenomena of modern times: ever since man mastered the upright gait, he has been driven from his native Africa to the whole world, including Europe. Until recently, this prehistory was still in the dark, but with the new methods of genetics, this has changed fundamentally. Johannes Krause, one of the leading experts in the field, joins Thomas Trappe to tell us what genes tell us about our origins: Are there "original peoples"? When did early Europeans lose their dark skin? What role did the Balkan route play in the past 40,000 years? A grand narrative that shows: Without the immigrants who came to Europe from all directions over millennia and brought innovations with them again and again, our continent would be inconceivable.