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Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes - Hardcover

Olson, Steve

 
9780618091577: Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0618091572 ISBN 13: 9780618091577
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Steve Olson’s Mapping Human History was a National Book Award finalist and won the Science-in-Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers. Olson has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, Scientific American, and Science. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, where he coaches the math team at a public middle school.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0618091572
ISBN 13 
9780618091577
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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