The Journey of Man: A Genetic OdysseyPenguin Adult, 2003 M05 29 - 224 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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... evidence for the presence of anatomically modern humans , as opposed to Homo erectus or Neanderthals , who remained trapped in a Middle Palaeolithic time - warp . The details of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition will be ...
... evidence to support stories from the Bible , and the uppermost layers in Tell el Sultan do , in fact , belong to the biblical city of Jericho - the name most often used for the site . These later remains , dating from the past 4,000 ...
... evidence for a significant European population expansion after the end of the last ice age , almost certainly aided by the onset of food production . Evidence for this comes in the form of a recent analysis by David Reich and his ...