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Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins

Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins Paperback - 2003

by Olson, Steve

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A finalist for the National Book Award, this work follows 150,000 years of human history, tracing the origins of modern humans and the migration of our ancestors throughout the world. Maps throughout.

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  • Title Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
  • Author Olson, Steve
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mariner Books, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 2003-04-01
  • Features Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR005757825
  • ISBN 9780618352104 / 0618352104
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.54 x 0.75 in (21.34 x 14.07 x 1.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Human population genetics, Human genetics - Variation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001051880
  • Dewey Decimal Code 599.9

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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 and Confucius as forebears. Olson also provides startling new perspectives on the invention of agriculture, the peopling of the Americas, the origins of language, the history of the Jews, and more. An engaging and lucid account, Mapping Human History will forever change how we think about ourselves and our relations with others.

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