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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... pattern , it seems likely that any admixture with them was not reciprocal : as we saw in Chapter 4 , mitochondrial DNA retains strong evidence of the coastal migrants in the form of haplogroup M , while the Y - chromosome primarily ...
... pattern seen by Cavalli - Sforza and his colleagues clearly exists , but they were studying large - scale patterns ... pattern reflects a general trend of migration from Asia to Europe during the Upper Palaeolithic . After all , if we ...
... pattern remained elusive . In 1998 Mark Seielstad , then a graduate student working with Luca Cavalli - Sforza and ... pattern of genetic variation in our species . Simple , local decisions about marriage and property , summed over ...