Real Eve Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa

Name: Real Eve Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa
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ISBN: 9780786713349

ISBN-10: 0786713348

ISBN-13: 9780786713349

Edition: N/A

Authors: Stephen Oppenheimer

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Imagine an airline check-in desk in Chicago, which has seven people standing in line. They stand silently and avoid eye contact because they don't know each other. And yet they are actually related -- all of them have an African female and male ancestor in common. Not only are we all ultimately African, but what's more it can now be proved that all modern non-Africans sprang from a single exodus out of Africa, rather than peopling the Earth in multiple waves of migration. In a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological and climatic evidence, Stephen Oppenheimer reveals the story of how a group of no more than a few hundred souls crossed the mouth of the Red Sea some 85,000 years ago.…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 8/16/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


Preface


Prologue



Out of Africa



When did we become modern?



Two kinds of European



First steps into Asia, first leap to Australia



The early Asian divisions



The Great Freeze



The peopling of the Americas


Epilogue



The real daughters of Eve



The sons of Adam


Notes


Index