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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... Upper Palaeolithic . The tools of the Upper Palaeolithic mark a radical departure from those that pre - date them , and are clear evidence for the presence of anatomically modern humans , as opposed to Homo erectus or Neanderthals , who ...
... Upper Palaeolithic humans may have reached the Middle East during the relatively warm and moist conditions around 50,000 years ago , when the eastern Sahara was in retreat and a gateway opened along the Red Sea . Perhaps they migrated ...
... Upper Palaeolithic people , and the genetic data bears this out . Very few Europeans trace their ancestry directly to the Levant of 45,000 years ago , as attested to by the Y - chromosome results . Our canonical Levantine Upper Palaeolithic ...