A must read for all who want to know about Portugal.
It is a multidisciplinary approach for what it means to be Portuguese. This is a work that is not exactly literary, focuses various sciences that help to understand in a comprehensive manner after all who are these Portuguese and its influence in the world. The book is written in two hands, one hand, belongs to Filipa M. Ribeiro is a journalist who helps "translate" to a more colloquial language all the terminology and scientific research, which is the sole responsibility of the biologist, Luisa Pereira. It's a reading adventure this book and discover the origins of the genetic heritage of our people, but, not just that. They also address the various stages of human evolution, from prehistory to the present day. Let's just say, is the portrait of mankind under various scientific perspectives, thru archeology, anthropology, climatology and even historical approach, particularizing in a clear and attractive language the specific case of the Portuguese origins in sub-Saharan Africa, where it maximum strain is located in the localities of Belmonte and Mértola and still focusing on the remaining genetic heritage that we acquired over the navigation travel we did thru the globe. What we can concluded is that in the background we are a mixed people and we were literally everywhere, which reinforces the old adage, where there is a Portuguese, there are always two or three more. Good reading.
