Learning to "read" the DNA of not only modern Homo sapiens, but also our distant ancestors, we got the opportunity to travel in time. In this book, the reader led by the geneticist-anthropologist Evelyn Ayer will follow the same paths as our disappeared relatives moved - Neanderthals, Denisovans and the mysterious steppe people, which laid the foundation for all Indo-European languages; will follow in the footsteps of Bukhara Jews, Genghis Khan's troops and thousands of "royal daughters" sent by Louis XIV to settle New France, will board a ship carrying African slaves from their homeland... The author uses the results of recent scientific research and shares his own field observations in a scientific field that seemed fantastic yesterday. This science - genetics - gives the answer to the question: how did a person become a person. How, in just a few million years, a handful of Homo sapiens wandering around the savannah turned into a dominant species on the planet.