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Event #11

Guido Barbujani

We're the Africans

They were once the sole inhabitants of Europe: Neanderthals, a type of hominid different from us both in physical appearance and culture, but who, like us, would hunt in groups and, while not shying away from violence, is known to have cared for its disabled members. Today only we are left. How this happened – why, sixty thousand years ago, a group of humans came out of Africa, leading to what would soon be the extinction of all pre-existing human life-forms – is still something we aren't able to explain with certainty. We can, however, find some answers by studying our human genome; perhaps also understanding that, while each of us is different, our species – so mobile, and with such a tendency towards migration and exchange – never came to develop the different groups of biologically homogeneous individuals that in other species are known as races.

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Guido Barbujani
Guido Barbujani

has worked at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, at the universities of London, Padova and Bologna, and has taught Genetics at the Università di Ferrara since 1996. He studies human biodiversity and ancient DNA. He is a contributor to Sole 24 Ore. He has published novels, which include Dilettanti (Marsilio, 1993), Dopoguerra (Sironi, 2002), Questioni di razza (Mondadori, 2006), and scientific essays, such as L’invenzione delle razze (Bompiani, 2006), Sono razzista, ma sto cercando di smettere (with P. Cheli, ≪i Libri del Festival della Mente≫, Laterza,2008), Europei senza se e senza ma (Bompiani, 2008). His latest book is called Lascia stare i santi. Una storia di reliquie e di scienziati (Einaudi, 2014).

 


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