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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... nature vs. nurture debate . Even the Fuegians , as horrendous as they were in their natural state , were members of the same species as the crew aboard the Beagle . In the closing chapter of his journal he takes a jab at the barbaric ...
... nature vs. nurture debate . Even the Fuegians , as horrendous as they were in their natural state , were members of the same species as the crew aboard the Beagle . In the closing chapter of his journal he takes a jab at the barbaric ...
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... nature always takes the most parsimonious path ? In particular , is it self - evident that ' simplify ' is nature's buzzword ? This book is not the forum for a detailed discussion of the history of parsimony ( there are several ...
... nature always takes the most parsimonious path ? In particular , is it self - evident that ' simplify ' is nature's buzzword ? This book is not the forum for a detailed discussion of the history of parsimony ( there are several ...
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... Nature ( 405 : 65-9 , 2000 ) . The mtDNA evidence for a coastal exodus from Africa was published by Lluis Quintana - Murci in Nature Genetics ( 23 : 437-41 , 1999 ) . The Y - chro- mosome data on the distribution of M130 ( also known as ...
... Nature ( 405 : 65-9 , 2000 ) . The mtDNA evidence for a coastal exodus from Africa was published by Lluis Quintana - Murci in Nature Genetics ( 23 : 437-41 , 1999 ) . The Y - chro- mosome data on the distribution of M130 ( also known as ...
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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