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Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause is director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena. He played a key role in decoding the Neanderthal genome. In the lecture series on migration, he spoke about the genetic origins of Europeans. Lecture as part of the lecture series "Migration. Migration movements from antiquity to the present" of the Cluster of Excellence Topoi in the summer semester of 2016 at the Free University of Berlin. The lecture series places the controversial topic in a broad historical context from prehistory to late antiquity and from the Middle Ages to the present. Terms and concepts are questioned: Who exactly "migrates", for what reasons and with what consequences? In which time periods do historical migration movements occur - and is there really such a thing as "mass migrations", or has it ever happened? The perspectives of historians and archaeologists are supplemented by contributions from sociology, theology, genetics, literary studies and museology. More information at: https://www.topoi.org/event/33588/ https://migration.hypotheses.org/608