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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... south - east Asia – ' living fossils ' , if you will . The sugges- tion made by many anthropologists , particularly Peter Bellwood of the Australian National University , is that the population of south - east Asia prior to 6,000 years ...
... east Asian regional continuity , since it is impossible to reconcile with any form of local evolution from erectus ... Asia . How it reached this location remains a mystery , but it is likely that the early coastal migrants to south - east ...
... east Asia . It is hardly found west of the great central Asian mountain ranges , and does not occur at all in the ... south - east Asia . In Europe , on the other hand , Neolithic immigrants account for only 20 per cent of the present Y ...