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Mapping Human History Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins

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ISBN-10: 0618352104

ISBN-13: 9780618352104

Edition: 2002

Authors: Steve Olson

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In a journey across four continents, acclaimed science writer Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations of our ancestors throughout the world over the past 150,000 years. Like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, Mapping Human History is a groundbreaking synthesis of science and history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the latest genetic research, linguistic evidence, and archaeological findings, Olson reveals the surprising unity among modern humans and "demonstrates just how naive some of our ideas about our human ancestry have been" (Discover).Olson offers a genealogy of all humanity, explaining, for instance, why everyone can claim Julius Caesar…    
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Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Introduction: The Human Pageant
Africa
The End of Evolution: The African Origins of Modern Humans
Individuals and Groups: The Divergence of Modern Humans
The African Diaspora and the Genetic Unity of Modern Humans
The Middle East
Encounters with the Other: Modern Humans and Neandertals in the Middle East
Agriculture, Civilization, and the Emergence of Ethnicity
God's People: A Genetic History of the Jews
Asia and Australia
The Great Migration: To Asia and Beyond
Sprung from a Common Source: Genes and Languages
Europe
Who Are the Europeans?
Immigration and the Future of Europe
The Americas
The Settlement of the Americas
The Burden of Knowledge: Native Americans and the Human Genome Diversity Project
The World
The End of Race: Hawaii and the Mixing of Peoples
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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