The Journey of Man: A Genetic OdysseyPenguin Adult, 2003 M05 29 - 224 pages Around 60,000 years ago, a man, identical to us in all important respects, walked the soil of Africa. Every man alive today is descended from him. How did he come to be father to all of us - a real-life Adam? And why do we come in such a huge variety of sizes, shapes, types and races if we all share a single prehistoric ancestor?
In this fascinating book, Spencer Wells shows how the truth about our ancestors is hidden in our genetic code, and reveals how developments in the cutting-edge science of population genetics have made it possible not just to discover where our ancestors lived (and who they may have fought, loved, learned from and influence) but to create a family tree for the whole of humanity. |
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... Americans they examined were M3 , while around 50 per cent of North Americans had this lineage . Clearly , it was the major Native American Y - chromosome founder , defining the American clan . The only problem was that M3 was not found ...
... American archaeology in The Human Career ( see above ) . James Chatters's Ancient Encounters : Kennewick Man and the First Americans ( Simon and Schuster , New York , 2001 ) describes this exciting archaeological find . The work by ...
... American origins in American Journal of Human Genetics ( 64 : 619-28 and 64 : 817-31 , respectively ) . Joseph Greenberg's work on Native American languages is reviewed in Merritt Ruhlen's A Guide to the World's Languages , Volume 1 ...