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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... agriculture . In the case of the Middle East , the genomes of today's western Eurasians still retain a signal of those events at Jericho 10,000 years ago . Archaeologists had long known that agriculture spread from its origin in the ...
... Agriculture soon spread throughout China , with rice dominating in the south , where the wet , humid conditions favoured this grain . Rice agriculture spread down the Yangtze , and was wide- spread in southern China by 5000 BC , perhaps ...
... agriculture . It was only after a fully mature tropical variant of agriculture had taken root that the proto- Polynesians were able to set sail for undiscovered lands . They took with them their crops , confident in their ability to ...