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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... expansion . What they found was that lineages defined by Neolithic Middle Eastern markers are found in a minority of modern Europeans . In fact , the results from the Y agree almost perfectly with the mtDNA data , suggesting that 80 per ...
... expansion into Europe . However , unlike in Europe , there is a very strong genetic signal of this expansion , suggesting that it was people , and not merely the culture , that moved . - In Chapter 6 we learned that one descendant ...
... expansion in the past 10,000 years . M122 , which first appeared on an M175 chromosome , is now widespread throughout east Asia . It is hardly found west of the great central Asian mountain ranges , and does not occur at all in the ...