Who are Italians, really? Which populations have inhabited our country throughout human history? How did they live? What did they eat? What cultural and genetic exchanges have there been? Science on the Sofa returns to chat with scientists and communicators. The guest of this first episode is Giacomo Moro Mauretto @EntropyforLife, who recently published the book "True Italians. Evolutionary and Genetic History of Our Country" (Mondadori, 2025).

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