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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... early as 60,000 years ago . But the earliest archaeological sites on the south - east Asian mainland date to less than 40,000 years ago . How could humans have been in Australia 20,000 years before this – surely they came from south ...
... early on the first modern humans in Europe . The numbers would not have been great , though , since it was far easier to stay within the bounds of the steppe zone to which they had become so well adapted . The mountains and temperate ...
... Early agriculturalists were taking on a new set of risks when they committed themselves to a settled existence . The ... early days of agriculture , during the turbulent climatic conditions of the early postglacial period , famine ...