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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... migration . No mountain ranges or great deserts to cross , no need to develop new toolkits or protective clothing ... migration along this coastal route - beachcombing along the southern coast of Asia . There are two remaining pieces of ...
... migration were there into the New World ? If the earliest Americans came from Siberia , did later migrants arrive ... migration to the Americas ? Greenberg suggested that each family originated with a single migration from Asia to the ...
... migrants . We do , in fact , see a genetic signal of this later migration . It comes , interest- ingly , in the form of our Coastal marker , M130 . In Na - Dene popu- lations , as many as 25 per cent of men have this marker , while it ...