The Journey of Man: A Genetic OdysseyPenguin Adult, 2003 M05 29 - 288 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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... Eurasian Eve lived around 50-60,000 years ago , suggesting that she and Eurasian Adam could have met . She is called by the ( again ) rather mundane name L3 , and her daughters accom- panied the sons of M168 on their journey to populate ...
... 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 M45 - they would have had ...
... Eurasian steppe belt 102 North - east Africa and Middle East 82 Southern Asia 62 markers , Y - chromosome 92R7 marker 138-9 coalescence estimation 71-3 , 81 , 100 , 177 genealogical tree 181 M3 ( Americans ) 137–40 , 140 , 143 M9 ( ...