Out of Eden: The Peopling of the WorldIn a brilliant synthesis of genetic, archaeological, linguistic and climatic data, Oppenheimer challenges current thinking with his claim that there was only one successful migration out of Africa. In 1988 Newsweek headlined the startling discovery that everyone alive on the earth today can trace their maternal DNA back to one woman who lived in Africa 150,000 years ago. It was thought that modern humans populated the world through a series of migratory waves from their African homeland. |
Contents
Out of Africa | |
Figures | |
When did we become modern? | |
First steps into Asia first leap to Australia | |
The early Asian divisions | |
The Great Freeze | |
The peopling of the Americas | |
Epilogue | |
The sons of Adam | |
Index | |
Late Upper Palaeolithic carvings The Natural History Museum London | 14 |