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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... Europe . It is such a tiny hop across the Bosporus from the Middle East to Europe that we might ask why it took so long - perhaps 10,000 years for modern humans to make a significant foray into western Europe . To solve this riddle of ...
... European gene pool traces back to other waves of migration , primarily during the Palaeolithic . In western Europeans , this Palaeo- lithic component is largely defined by our friend from the last chapter M173 , which links Europe back ...
... Europe and the Middle East . The agricultural expansion was simply one population movement into Europe there is clear archaeological evidence for several others . As their later analysis showed , it still accounted for a minority of the ...