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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... living in the present . This book could not have been written without his intellectual pres- ence , and it is ... living in the present - it is their living genomes that give us our clues . Every one of us is carrying his or her personal ...
... living in the present . This book could not have been written without his intellectual pres- ence , and it is ... living in the present - it is their living genomes that give us our clues . Every one of us is carrying his or her personal ...
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... living on Kowloon or the Mid - Levels , while I would have gotten hitched to a Southern belle . The effect of this localization of mating habits is to make people living in the same region more similar to each other over time , and to ...
... living on Kowloon or the Mid - Levels , while I would have gotten hitched to a Southern belle . The effect of this localization of mating habits is to make people living in the same region more similar to each other over time , and to ...
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... living in south - east Asia today would be classified as ' Mongoloid ' peoples , implying a shared history with those living further north in China and Siberia . There are , however , isolated populations of so - called Negritos living ...
... living in south - east Asia today would be classified as ' Mongoloid ' peoples , implying a shared history with those living further north in China and Siberia . There are , however , isolated populations of so - called Negritos living ...
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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