SETI public: The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

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We are pleased to send you the following information about this
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The Journey of Man
A Genetic Odyssey
Spencer Wells

To read an interview with Spencer Wells, please visit:
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/7442.html

Around 60,000 years ago, a man-identical to us in all
important respects-lived in Africa. Every person alive today
is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up
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?

Showing how the secrets about our ancestors are hidden in
our genetic code, Spencer Wells reveals how developments in
the cutting-edge science of population genetics have made it
possible to create a family tree for the whole of humanity.
We now know not only where our ancestors lived but who they
fought, loved, and influenced.

Informed by this new science, The Journey of Man is replete
with astonishing information. Wells tells us that we can
trace our origins back to a single Adam and Eve, but that
Eve came first by some 80,000 years. We hear how the male Y-
chromosome has been used to trace the spread of humanity
from Africa into Eurasia, why differing racial types emerged
when mountain ranges split population groups, and that the
San Bushmen of the Kalahari have some of the oldest genetic
markers in the world. We learn, finally with absolute
certainty, that Neanderthals are not our ancestors and that
the entire genetic diversity of Native Americans can be
accounted for by just ten individuals.

It is an enthralling, epic tour through the history and
development of early humankind-as well as an accessible look
at the analysis of human genetics that is giving us
definitive answers to questions we have asked for centuries,
questions now more compelling than ever.

Spencer Wells was formerly head of the population genetics
research group at Oxford University's Wellcome Trust Centre
for Human Genetics and is currently a consultant to the
biotechnology industry. The writer and presenter of the
science film The Journey of Man, he has been a consulting
scientist for several other film productions.

0-691-11532-X Cloth $29.95 US L19.95
256 pages. 44 color photos. 54 halftones. 3 maps. 6 x 9.
Not for sale in the Commonwealth (except Canada) and the
European Union

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