The Journey of Man: A Genetic OdysseyAllen Lane, 2002 - 224 pages Around 60,000 years ago, a man walked the soil of Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did he come to be father to all of us - a real life Adam? To find out, Spencer Wells embarked on a unique voyage of discovery, travelling the world and deciphering the genetic codes of people from the Sahara Desert to Siberia. He reveals how our DNA enables us to work out where our ancestors lived, (and who they may have fought, loved and learned from); to re-trace their footsteps from Africa to the far corners of the earth ; to understand how we evolved into such a huge variety of sizes, shapes and races - and, ultimately, to create a family tree for the whole of humanity. |
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... central Asian and ancestral Eurasian clan lineages . While M45 is the marker that we use to infer the migrations of the early central Asian steppe hunters , there were still many men alive who did not have Y - chromosomes marked with ...
... central Asian and ancestral Eurasian clan lineages . While M45 is the marker that we use to infer the migrations of the early central Asian steppe hunters , there were still many men alive who did not have Y - chromosomes marked with ...
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... central Asian clan . As we discussed earlier , the steppelands of 30-40,000 years ago stretched across a vast swathe of the Eurasian landmass . To Upper Palaeolithic hunters , this ecosystem would have been a land of plenty , and ...
... central Asian clan . As we discussed earlier , the steppelands of 30-40,000 years ago stretched across a vast swathe of the Eurasian landmass . To Upper Palaeolithic hunters , this ecosystem would have been a land of plenty , and ...
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... central Asia or southern Siberia around 20,000 years ago , and is distributed across Asia , from southern India to China to Siberia , as well as throughout the Americas . It is found at highest frequency in Siberia , and thus it could ...
... central Asia or southern Siberia around 20,000 years ago , and is distributed across Asia , from southern India to China to Siberia , as well as throughout the Americas . It is found at highest frequency in Siberia , and thus it could ...
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Aborigines actually Adam Africa agriculture analysis ancient animals anthropologists apes appear Asian Australia Cavalli-Sforza cent central Asia China chromosomes clan climate coastal colleagues common ancestor continent culture Darwin defined descendants developed earliest early human east Asia Eurasian Europe Europeans evolution evolutionary expansion extinct favour frequency genes genetic data genetic diversity genetic variation geneticists genome Hindu Kush hominid Homo erectus human diversity human genetic human migration human populations hunter-gatherers hunting ice age impala India Indo-European Indo-European languages infer ingredients journey known languages leap lifestyle linguistic living marker Mediterranean Middle East Middle Eastern migration million mitochondrial DNA modern humans molecules mtDNA mutations Native Americans Neanderthals Neolithic non-African northern nucleotide Nyae origin past perhaps polymorphisms recent region route sample Siberia simply soup recipes south-east Asia southern species spoken spread steppe suggests thousands trace unique Upper Palaeolithic western Y-chromosome lineages