The Journey of Man: A Genetic OdysseyRandom House Publishing Group, 2012 M10 31 - 240 pages Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans share a single prehistoric ancestor, do we come in so many sizes, shapes, and races? Examining the hidden secrets of human evolution in our genetic code, Spencer Wells reveals how developments in the revolutionary science of population genetics have made it possible to create a family tree for the whole of humanity. Replete with marvelous anecdotes and remarkable information, from the truth about the real Adam and Eve to the way differing racial types emerged, The Journey of Man is an enthralling, epic tour through the history and development of early humankind. |
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... Cavalli-Sforza. While there he began his research on the genetics of human populations in Central Asia, which he continued after moving to Oxford University in 1999. After heading the population genetics research group at Oxford's ...
... Cavalli-Sforza. While there he began his research on the genetics of human populations in Central Asia, which he continued after moving to Oxford University in 1999. After heading the population genetics research group at Oxford's ...
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... Cavalli-Sforza, with whom I was lucky enough to work as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford in the 1990s. It was Luca's insight, as a geneticist with a passion for history and a talent for mathematics, which provided us with a time ...
... Cavalli-Sforza, with whom I was lucky enough to work as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford in the 1990s. It was Luca's insight, as a geneticist with a passion for history and a talent for mathematics, which provided us with a time ...
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... Cavalli-Sforza had started his career in Pavia as a medical student. He soon left medicine to devote himself to genetics research, first on bacteria and later on humans. At university he had studied under the famous Drosophila ...
... Cavalli-Sforza had started his career in Pavia as a medical student. He soon left medicine to devote himself to genetics research, first on bacteria and later on humans. At university he had studied under the famous Drosophila ...
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... Cavalli-Sforza and others. This work would eventually lead the field out of the 'mutant' morass. Kimura noticed that genetic polymorphisms in populations can vary in frequency owing to random sampling errors — the 'drift' mentioned ...
... Cavalli-Sforza and others. This work would eventually lead the field out of the 'mutant' morass. Kimura noticed that genetic polymorphisms in populations can vary in frequency owing to random sampling errors — the 'drift' mentioned ...
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... Cavalli—Sforza and Anthony Edwards in 1964.' In this study they made two landmark assumptions which would be adopted in each subsequent study of human genetic diversity. The first was that the genetic polymorphisms were behaving as ...
... Cavalli—Sforza and Anthony Edwards in 1964.' In this study they made two landmark assumptions which would be adopted in each subsequent study of human genetic diversity. The first was that the genetic polymorphisms were behaving as ...
Contents
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4Coasting Away | 61 |
Leaps and Bounds 8 | 81 |
Blood from a Stone 8The Importance of Culture 6 | 184 |
Acknowledgements | 197 |
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