Who are we and how did we get here? (Ancient DNA and new science of human past)

In this book, David Rijk, a geneticist and one of the pioneers in this field, reviews the distant history of our species in our African homeland and beyond. He tells a remarkable story about the imagined ghosts of our ancestral humanity from which humans today descend, shedding new light on our past, on who we are as contemporary humans, and how our ancestors spread to different parts of the world. It also highlights migration, explaining that humans not only evolved but also spread extensively and often.