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Mapping Human History: Discovering Our Past Through Our Genes
by Steve Olson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618091572
- ISBN 13
- 9780618091577
- Seller
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Darien, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York,NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. NF/NF/ 1st ed. A clean tight copy. No wear to book; no foxing, marking, or soiling, square. No wear to dust jacket, great even color, and now covered with a mylar sleeve. 292pp., maps. notes. index. Not ex-library or remainder. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage. Mailed boxed, and I can have it in the mail tomorrow.
Synopsis
In this sweeping narrative of the past 150,000 years of human history, Steve Olson draws on new understandings in genetics to reveal how the people of the world came to be. Traveling across four continents, Olson describes the African origins of modern humans and the migration of our ancestors throughout the world. He offers a genealogy of all of humanity, explaining, for instance, why everyone can claim Julius Caesar and Confucius as their forebears and how the history of the Jewish people jibes with, and diverges from, biblical accounts. He shows how groups of people differ and yet are the same, exploding the myth that human races are a biological reality while demonstrating how the accidents of history have resulted in the rich diversity of people today. Celebrating both our commonality and our variety, MAPPING HUMAN HISTORY is a masterful synthesis of the human past and present that will forever change how we think about ourselves and our relations with others.
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- Bookseller
- Books About The South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0023157
- Title
- Mapping Human History: Discovering Our Past Through Our Genes
- Author
- Steve Olson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0618091572
- ISBN 13
- 9780618091577
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- New York,NY
- Date Published
- 2002
- LCCN
- 2001051880
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; History--Civil and Otherwise;
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Books About The South
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About the Seller
Books About The South
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Darien, Georgia
About Books About The South
BOOKS ABOUT THE SOUTH is located on the Georgia Coast in Darien, Georgia's second oldest city. I specialize in books from the Civil War Period through the 20th century from and about the entire Southern Region of the United States, with a special interest in Georgia History.
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