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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... human migration , as in the case of M17 and the steppe culture , as well as to refute it . Language is a good ... humans into discrete population units . Earlier classifications had used cultural attributes as part of their racial def ...
... human genetic diversity . Like a bespoke experiment , they provide a social contrast to the prevailing pattern in human populations around the world . We have used the Y - chromosome for most of our studies of human migration . This is ...
... human prehistory by Jared Diamond in The Rise and Fall of the Third Chim- panzee ( Vintage , London , 1991 ) – a ... migration , appear in Underhill et al.'s 2000 Nature Genetics and Annals of Human Genetics papers ( see above ) . The ...