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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... perhaps reaching east Asia within 100,000 years . From this we can infer that all Homo erectus around the world last shared a common ancestor in Africa nearly 2 million years ago . But according to the Berkeley mitochondrial data , Eve ...
... perhaps even defaulting to fool's mate . If you are hungry , you find a piece of fruit or use a blade of grass to fish termites out of a hole . Simple . Life in the forest is like this , day in and day out . The reason why so many ...
... perhaps in association with agriculture . The inclusion of Sumerian is especially telling , since this language ... perhaps they are simply collec- tions of unrelated languages that show random similarities . Or perhaps - subgroups do ...