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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... genetics for the next twenty years . This was the beginning of the modern era of human genetics . While the Hirszfelds clearly felt that their data on blood groups supported a racial classification that had become blurred by recent ...
... geneticists - in an effort to assess the relationships among modern humans . This work was begun in the 1950s , a heady time for the field of genetics . The structure of DNA had just been deciphered by Crick and Watson , and the ...
... geneticists were developing at the time . This was a heady time for the fledgling biotech industry , and the San ... genetics spent some time at Stanford during the 1990s - among them students and postdoctoral research fellows such as ...