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Mapping human history discovering the past through our genes Trade cloth - 2002
by Steve Olson
Summary
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.
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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THE PAST AUTUMN has been the rainiest season in southern Africa in more than a century, and the scrublands of northeastern Botswana are bursting with life.
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- Title Mapping human history discovering the past through our genes
- Author Steve Olson
- Binding Trade Cloth
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 292
- Language EN
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
- Date 2002
- ISBN 9780618091577
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001051880
Media reviews
"Olson raises the level of discourse to a new high, assembling powerful evidence to support the no-races hypothesis." Kirkus Reviews
"An engaging and fast-paced look at a subject that has profound implications for our everyday lives." Publishers Weekly
"An instructive overview of human history." Boston Herald
"An engaging and fast-paced look at a subject that has profound implications for our everyday lives." Publishers Weekly
"An instructive overview of human history." Boston Herald
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