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Johannes Krause

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Johannes Krause is the director of the newly founded Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity in Jena. He worked on the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome. In 2010 he and his team discovered the Denisova Man, a prehistoric man. The science journal Nature described him as "rising star in ancient DNA research".

Books by Johannes Krause
A Short History of Humanity
Johannes Krause, Thomas Trappe

An international bestseller, covering 2 million years of human history in 250 pages, which proves that migration has always been essential to our survival.

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