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    My European Family: The First 54,000 Years
    My European Family: The First 54,000 Years
    My European Family: The First 54,000 Years
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    My European Family: The First 54,000 Years

    By Karin Bojs and Fiona Graham

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    The story of Europe and its people, told through its genetic legacy.

    'An extraordinary book ... part travel narrative, part family history, part scientific study.' - Financial Times

    Karin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever. As a science journalist she was eager to learn more about herself, her family and the interconnectedness of society. After all, we're all related. And in a sense, we are all family.

    My European Family tells the story of Europe and its people through its genetic legacy, from the first wave of immigration to the present day, weaving in the latest archaeological findings. Karin goes deep in search of her genealogy; by having her DNA sequenced she was able to trace the path of her ancestors back through the Viking and Bronze ages to the Neolithic and beyond into prehistory, even back to a time when Neanderthals ran the European show. Travelling to dozens of countries to follow the story, she learns about early farmers in the Middle East and flute-playing cavemen in Germany and France, along with a whole host of other fascinating characters.

    This book looks at genetics from a uniquely pan-European perspective, with the author meeting dozens of geneticists, historians and archaeologists in the course of her research. The genes of this seemingly ordinary modern European woman have a truly fascinating story to tell, and in many ways it is the true story of Europe. At a time when politics is pushing nations apart, this book shows that, ultimately, our genes will always bind us together.

    Winner of the 2015 Swedish August Prize
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateMar 23, 2017
    ISBN9781472941497
    My European Family: The First 54,000 Years
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    Karin Bojs

    Karin Bojs is an author and science journalist. She was head of the science desk at Dagens Nyheter, the leading daily newspaper in Sweden, for nearly two decades. Karin has an honorary doctorate from Stockholm University, and has received several awards, including the 2015 Swedish August Prize for My European Family. Karin lives in Stockholm on top of a hill with a view over Lake Mälaren. She often leaves her apartment for her country house where she keeps honey bees, produces cider and maintains an orchid meadow. During the long, dark Scandinavian winter nights she enjoys dancing the tango. @KarinBojs

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      I approached this book as being a general history of how the story of human migration has been informed by the new advances in DNA analysis, and there is a lot of this in this book, but what one really has here is the author's memoir of studying her own family history with an added consideration of how Swedes have thought about themselves as a people.

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