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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... culture that can be identified as proto - Indo - European ( PIE ) , which included Childe's Corded Ware people . The Kurgan culture , as she called it , left enormous burial mounds ( known as kurgans ) that are still dotted across the ...
... culture . Almost all of the signals of the original human language - if it existed - have been lost , leaving us ... culture with them . However , it is quite possible to expand a culture without a concomitant movement of people . This ...
... culture , as well as to refute it . Language is a good cultural attribute to study , since there are often written records . Even when there aren't , the relationships among languages can be examined systematically . Most cultural ...