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 not what most people conjure up when asked to describe ' noble savages ' . Yet Darwin was actually travelling with three Fuegians taken to London five years earlier by Captain FitzRoy . Colourfully named Fuegia Basket , Jemmy ...
... clearly show that Australians like everyone else alive today - trace their ancestry back to Africa . The Australians have an answer for this . Greg Singh , an aboriginal artist living in Cairns , suggests that the world was actually ...
... clearly has his work cut out for him . - It is likely that the evolution of language does follow the same paths as the migration of modern humans , with an origin in Africa and subsequent dispersal to the far corners of the globe ...