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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... Neolithic immigration , with the Wave of Advance ? The pattern seen by Cavalli - Sforza and his colleagues clearly exists , but they were studying large - scale patterns across the entirety of Europe and the Middle East . The ...
... Neolithic . Measles , for instance , is closely related to rinderpest , a disease of cattle . It is likely that the domestication of livestock around 10,000 years ago introduced this disease into Neolithic populations . Historian ...
... Neolithic . Brian Fagan's account of Neolithic origins is given in his People of the Earth , cited above . Cavalli - Sforza and his colleagues ' work on the Wave of Advance is summarized in Ammer- man and Cavalli - Sforza , Neolithic ...