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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... University in 1994 , focusing on population genetics and evolution . He subsequently moved to Stanford University as a post - doctoral fellow where he worked with Luca Cavalli - Sforza . While there he began his work on the genetics of ...
... ( University of Hawaii Press , Honolulu , 1997 ) and Gregory Possehl's and Charles Higham's articles on south and south - east Asian prehistory , respectively , in The Oxford Com- panion to Archaeology ( Oxford University Press , 1996 ...
... University Press , 1987 ) . 8 The Importance of Culture The epigraph for this chapter is modified from a creation story in Arthur Cotterell's Encyclopedia of World Mythology ( Paragon , Bath , 1999 ) . A summarized version of Cook's ...