Humanos

Where we come from? About us? Where we go? The renowned geneticist Lluís Quintana-Murci responds to these timeless questions, showing how the increase in knowledge obtained in recent decades by population genetics has transformed our understanding of the species. Humans is like a great fresco of life, travel, time and space in the life of man, made possible by the latest advances in genetic science. Lluís Quintana leads us through the cutting-edge technologies that allow us to decipher our genomes and explore their diversity throughout human populations. And not only those of today, but also, thanks to the fossil records, of past populations. This book traces the extraordinary history of human settlements throughout the planet, from the origin of the species in Africa some 60,000 years ago to the settlement of Polynesia just a few millennia ago. Quintana-Murci reveals to us the existence of extinct human species, and how human populations have constantly interbred with each other.