The professor of genetic anthropology Évelyne Heyer will receive this Friday, for her book
The Odyssey of genes
(Flammarion), the taste of science prize for scientific book of the year, awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.
In this book, the author offers us, through DNA analysis, a journey through time to the confines of our species and our identity.
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The humanity of the twentieth century is the fruit of several million years of evolution, mixtures, separations, disappearances and replacements between different groups.
While Earth was home to at least five distinct human species less than 100,000 years ago,
Homo sapiens
is now the sole ruler of the world.
Its genetic makeup is remarkably homogeneous, even in groups that may have lived in isolation for very long periods.
The evolution of man
If there are differences in susceptibility to diseases, depending on the region of origin of our ancestors, Évelyne
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