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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... Clearly , it was the major Native American Y - chromosome founder , defining the American clan . The only problem was ... clear migrational route from Africa to the Middle East to the Americas , via the Eurasian steppes , but it still ...
... clear link between them and the eastern languages . These languages , the Sino - Tibetan and Na - Dene families , do have their own genetic connection , however . It comes in the form of the M130 marker , which we first encountered in ...
... Clearly , the Y was telling a different story - one that helps to illustrate the main theme of this chapter . The ... clear . A linguistic thread Much of my work as a geneticist has focused on deciphering the relationships among the ...