Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas

From celebrated anthropologist Jennifer Raff comes the untold story-and fascinating mystery-of how humans migrated to the Americas.

ORIGINis the story of who the first peoples in the Americas were, how and why they made the crossing, how they dispersed south, and how they lived based on a new and powerful kind of evidence: their complete genomes. ORIGINprovides an overview of these new histories throughout North and South America, and a glimpse into how the tools of genetics reveal details a...