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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... earliest sign of the Upper Palaeolithic in the Indian subcontinent . The date , however , is a problem - the earliest clearly modern artefacts date from no earlier than 31,000 years ago . Nearby Batadomba Lena cave contains the earliest ...
... earliest days of human existence . Like many indigenous peoples around the world , the Abor- igines believe that they have always lived in their land . They cite the scientists ' ever - changing estimates of the dates of human occupa ...
... earliest Mesopotamian civilizations - has geographic and cultural links back to the earliest days of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent . While the genetic data supports the notion of a population connec- tion among some of the western ...