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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... eastern Africa and the Middle East , and the age of the Upper Palaeolithic archaeological sites in the Levant , helps us to answer the question of whether Eurasia was settled in a single southern coastal emigration from Africa . M130 ...
... 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 genetic ...
... eastern Spain , speak a language unrelated to any other in the world . Jared Diamond , in his book The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee , suggested that it might be a remnant of the agricultural Wave of Advance from the Middle East ...