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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... population genetics and evolution. He subsequently moved to Stanford University, where he was a postdoctoral fellow with Luca Cavalli-Sforza. While there he began his research on the genetics of human populations in Central Asia, which ...
... population genetics and evolution. He subsequently moved to Stanford University, where he was a postdoctoral fellow with Luca Cavalli-Sforza. While there he began his research on the genetics of human populations in Central Asia, which ...
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... human diversity in an effort to categorize it. Some traits like this were ... humans. This experiment led to the definition of human blood groups, which would ... populations of aboriginal humans, each composed entirely ofeither A or B ...
... human diversity in an effort to categorize it. Some traits like this were ... humans. This experiment led to the definition of human blood groups, which would ... populations of aboriginal humans, each composed entirely ofeither A or B ...
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... human biochemical diversity, The Distribution of the Human Blood Groups — a seminal work that became the standard text of experimental human population genetics for the next twenty years. This was the beginning of the modern era of human ...
... human biochemical diversity, The Distribution of the Human Blood Groups — a seminal work that became the standard text of experimental human population genetics for the next twenty years. This was the beginning of the modern era of human ...
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... humans were found within populations - around 85 per cent of the total. A further 7 per cent served to differentiate populations within a 'race', such as the Greeks from the Swedes. Only 8 per cent were found to differentiate between human ...
... humans were found within populations - around 85 per cent of the total. A further 7 per cent served to differentiate populations within a 'race', such as the Greeks from the Swedes. Only 8 per cent were found to differentiate between human ...
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... human populations. Their action has also produced the small percentage of human variation that distinguishes between human groups. That much was known by the middle of the twentieth century. But simply recognizing the existence of human ...
... human populations. Their action has also produced the small percentage of human variation that distinguishes between human groups. That much was known by the middle of the twentieth century. But simply recognizing the existence of human ...
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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