Praise for A Short History of Humanity:

‘Stops you dead in your tracks and makes you say out loud – why didn’t I know that before? Read it, think about it, and then read it again. An absolute revelation’
Sue Black, bestselling author of All That Remains

‘A valuable contribution to our understanding of who we are and how we got here’
Tim Marshall, bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography

‘A captivating and informative look at the origins and future of humanity’
Publishers Weekly

‘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’
Mark Honigsbaum, author of The Pandemic Century

‘Krause and Trappe expertly unravel the story of ancient DNA to reveal how the new field of archaeogenetics has utterly transformed understanding of our deep past’
Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of Kindred

‘Extremely enriching. Rarely have I been able to learn so much and get such radically new insights from 250 pages’
Süddeutsche Zeitung

‘Explosive… as gripping as a historical thriller’
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung