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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... origin in Africa and subsequent dispersal to the far corners of the globe . However , this statement is based on circumstantial evidence the universality of language in all human populations , extrapolation from short - term linguistic ...
... origins in American Journal of Human Genetics ( 64 : 619-28 and 64 : 817-31 , respectively ) . Joseph Greenberg's ... Origin of Language ( John Wiley , New York , 1994 ) and Charles Barber's The English Language ( Cambridge University ...
... origin ( coalescence of diversity ) 55 population affinity 175-6 spread of lineages 182 YAP marker 72 Marquesas Islands 147 measles virus 159 Mediterranean extinct languages 169 migrations 106 Mediterranean , East , and Middle East ...