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Mapping Human History

Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins

By Steve Olson

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| Paperback | 9780618352104

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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 scienContinue

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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    Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes by Steve Olson 292pp, Bloomsbury, £17.99 My grandparents were Jews from Byelorus and Poland. Yet I am related, genetically, to Julius Caesar and Boadicea, to say nothing of Montezuma and C ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 304 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0618352104
  • ISBN-13: 9780618352104
  • Publisher: Mariner Books
  • Pub date: Apr 01, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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