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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... seen , though , there were other hominids living along the route followed by these beach dwellers . They also made stone tools , and these have been found throughout Eurasia . The easternmost exten- sion of the range of Homo erectus was ...
... seen for the Y - chromosome and mtDNA , of a Palaeolithic European population relatively unaffected by Neolithic immigration , with the Wave of Advance ? The pattern seen by Cavalli - Sforza and his colleagues clearly exists , but they ...
... seen elsewhere in the world . The other reason for genetic uniformity among human populations is that humans are mobile , and groups have intermixed throughout their history . When this happens , their patterns of genetic variation ...