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Mapping human history : genes, race, and our common origins

Author: Steve Olson
Publisher: Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin, 2003, ©2002.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st Mariner Books ed
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Steve Olson
ISBN: 0618352104 : 9780618352104
OCLC Number: 51756092
Notes: "A Mariner book." Earlier edition has subtitle: Discovering the past through our genes.
Description: viii, 292 p. maps ; 21 cm.
Contents: Introduction: The human pageant -- I. AFRICA: The end of evolution: the African origins of modern humans -- The individuals and groups: the divergence of modern humans -- The African diaspora and the genetic unity of modern humans -- II. 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 -- III. ASIA AND AUSTRALIA: The great migration: to Asia and beyond -- Sprung from a common source: genes and languages -- IV. EUROPE: Who are the Europeans? -- Immigration and the future of Europe -- V. THE AMERICAS: The settlement of the Americas -- The burden of knowledge: Native Americans and the Human Genome Diversity Project -- VI. THE WORLD: The end of race: Hawaii and the mixing of peoples.
Responsibility: Steve Olson.

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