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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... later on humans . At university he had studied under the famous Drosophila geneticist Buzzati - Traverso , who was an adherent of the Dobzhansky school of genetics . Theodosius Dobzhan- sky had also been Richard Lewontin's PhD ...
... later migrations . Using absolute dating methods , we can infer that the M45 mutation occurred approximately 35,000 years ago in central Asia . Today , M45 is found only in central Asians and those who trace their ancestry to this ...
... later analysis showed , it still accounted for a minority of the genetic variation in Europe . Furthermore , because the Wave of Advance had no estimate of age , the Neolithic component could have been confounded with Palaeolithic ...