The Journey of Man: A Genetic OdysseyRandom House Trade Paperbacks, 2003 - 218 pages Around 60,000 years ago, a man—genetically identical to us—lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up as the father of us all? What happened to the descendants of other men who lived at the same time? And why, if modern humans share a single prehistoric ancestor, do we come in so many sizes, shapes, and races? Examining the hidden secrets of human evolution in our genetic code, Spencer Wells reveals how developments in the revolutionary science of population genetics have made it possible to create a family tree for the whole of humanity. Replete with marvelous anecdotes and remarkable information, from the truth about the real Adam and Eve to the way differing racial types emerged, The Journey of Man is an enthralling, epic tour through the history and development of early humankind. |
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... estimated for the age of the oldest common ancestor . This man , from whom all men alive today ultimately derive their Y ... estimate of coalescence dates is that , beyond placing all modern humans in Africa within the past 200,000 years ...
... estimated for the age of the oldest common ancestor . This man , from whom all men alive today ultimately derive their Y ... estimate of coalescence dates is that , beyond placing all modern humans in Africa within the past 200,000 years ...
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... estimates of the age of the coalescent points - Adam and Eve - is that there were no modern humans living outside Africa prior to the latest date we can estimate . Given that the Y date is later , this means that all modern humans were ...
... estimates of the age of the coalescent points - Adam and Eve - is that there were no modern humans living outside Africa prior to the latest date we can estimate . Given that the Y date is later , this means that all modern humans were ...
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... estimated 2,000 Yagnobi speakers in Tajikistan are completely integrated into the Tajik - speaking majority , and ... estimate that over half of the world's languages could be extinct by the end of this century - a rate that equates ...
... estimated 2,000 Yagnobi speakers in Tajikistan are completely integrated into the Tajik - speaking majority , and ... estimate that over half of the world's languages could be extinct by the end of this century - a rate that equates ...
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