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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... present day in some anthropological literature . This is largely as a result of the great difficulty in explaining the physical diversity in humans , as well as certain patterns in the fossil record . Perhaps the best - known recent ...
... present day in some anthropological literature . This is largely as a result of the great difficulty in explaining the physical diversity in humans , as well as certain patterns in the fossil record . Perhaps the best - known recent ...
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... present - day Adelaide . From the animal remains found at the site it is clear that several large species of extinct marsupials lived around the lakes , including the buffalo - sized Zygomaturus and a 200 - kg short - faced kangaroo ...
... present - day Adelaide . From the animal remains found at the site it is clear that several large species of extinct marsupials lived around the lakes , including the buffalo - sized Zygomaturus and a 200 - kg short - faced kangaroo ...
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... present in Europe from around 250,000 years ago ? It was a contentious question , with anthropologists such as Milford Wolpoff of the University of Michigan insisting that the DNA evidence was wrong , and that Euro- peans were ...
... present in Europe from around 250,000 years ago ? It was a contentious question , with anthropologists such as Milford Wolpoff of the University of Michigan insisting that the DNA evidence was wrong , and that Euro- peans were ...
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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