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Title: The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells ISBN: 0-691-11532-X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Journey of Man - An Epic
Comment: What an exciting subject! A theory about the dispersal of humanity through the Earth, all who descended from one man -Adam. Honestly presented by a very qualified geneticist. Good humor and "down to Earth" insights throughout. Semi technical yet understandable. Written with the passion of the author, who has analyzed DNA from blood around the world in theorizing that all of mankind originated in Africa some 2000 generations ago. The theory accounts for EVERYBODY alive today. The author accepts the evidence as it comes in, controversial or not - for instance he finds that female genetic markers predate Adam making "Eve" older than "Adam," not exactly biblical.... Who knows: Maybe Well's "Adam" in the book was really Noah.... A good read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Two complementary books
Comment: I read "The Journey of Man" by Spencer Wells because I saw his documentary on PBS a few weeks earlier. I immediately followed up by reading "The Seven Daughrters of Eve" by Bryan Sykes (2001) because the web site called my attention to it. I'm glad I read Wells first. He covers the direct-male-line of the human race as traced by the Y-chromosome, constructing a family tree of the whole world outside of sub-Saharan Africa. Sykes makes more sense with Wells's study in mind because he traces only a European family tree based on mytochondrial DNA, which shows the direct-female-line of descent. He devotes only a brief chapter at the end to fill out the family tree of the rest of the human race, including sub-Saharan Africa. It's clear from a page in Sykes's book that there has been some animosity between the two schools of thought (the authors have opposite links to Luca Cavalli-Sforza). Yet it's easy to fit Sykes's argument into Wells's thinking if you read Wells first; the opposite works less well. The two books are complementary; one does not refute the other. Both authors agree that more genetic sampling is needed to complete the picture; the work has just begun.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best book of it's kind!
Comment: Spencer Wells, unlike Bryan Sykes who wrote Seven daughters of Eve, is not an egomaniac. Wells mostly sticks just to the facts. Included in JOM are some excellent bits on the Aryan YChromosome being present in Indians of India to Eastern Europeans. Plus, that India-Indians also often possess the Y chromosome of Neolithic Middle Eastern ancestry that nearly all European have in their bodies as well. Other good facts in JOM too. Thanks Spencer.
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Title: Mapping Human History : Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins by Steve Olson ISBN: 0618352104 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title:Journey of Man ASIN: B0000AYL48 Publisher: Pbs (Direct) Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $26.08 |
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Title: The Seven Daughters of Eve by Bryan Sykes ISBN: 0393323145 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Mark Seielstad ISBN: 0520228731 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 07 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Dawn of Human Culture by Richard G. Klein ISBN: 0471252522 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 29 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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