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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... early human groups must have included women; while the journey we follow may leave out some female-specific details, the resolution we can achieve only by following the male lineage is worth the omission. What follows is a scientific ...
... early human groups must have included women; while the journey we follow may leave out some female-specific details, the resolution we can achieve only by following the male lineage is worth the omission. What follows is a scientific ...
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... human origins. The American pro~slavery lobby embraced an extreme form of the Linnean view in the nineteenth century. The view that human ... early and remaining trapped in an evolutionary dead-end until the present. He asserts that the ...
... human origins. The American pro~slavery lobby embraced an extreme form of the Linnean view in the nineteenth century. The view that human ... early and remaining trapped in an evolutionary dead-end until the present. He asserts that the ...
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... early convert of Broca's. Galton had inherited enough money to fund a variety of research subjects, including statistics and biology. Soon he too began to measure anything and everything on the human body in an effort to categorize human ...
... early convert of Broca's. Galton had inherited enough money to fund a variety of research subjects, including statistics and biology. Soon he too began to measure anything and everything on the human body in an effort to categorize human ...
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... early r9605 he would have inflamed old wounds that were only beginning to heal if he had recommended political action based on the findings of physical anthropology. Instead, he presented the fact of human racial differences as an ...
... early r9605 he would have inflamed old wounds that were only beginning to heal if he had recommended political action based on the findings of physical anthropology. Instead, he presented the fact of human racial differences as an ...
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... early stages of a new field of scientific enquiry, when there is no unifying theory with which to analyse the data accumulated. There was only one problem with the growing mass of data on human morphological variation — there was no ...
... early stages of a new field of scientific enquiry, when there is no unifying theory with which to analyse the data accumulated. There was only one problem with the growing mass of data on human morphological variation — there was no ...
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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