Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our AncestorsPenguin, 2006 - 312 sidor In just the last few years an explosion of discoveries - driven by information from the human genome - has empowered researchers to address many long-standing questions about the deep human past. Nicholas Wade has drawn on the new findings to present the first portrait of a special and hitherto mysterious group of human ancestors - the ancestral human population that lived in Africa 50,000 years ago and from whom everyone in the world today is descended. The human line evolved slowly from African apes until, quite recently in the timescale of human history, it acquired a novel faculty, the gift of language. With this transformation, humans became more innovative and their societies more cohesive. People were at last able to burst out of the African homeland where the stronger Neanderthals had long confined them, and then to inhabit the rest of the world. |
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GENETICS GENESIS | 1 |
FIRST WORDS | 35 |
EDEN | 51 |
EXODUS | 71 |
STASIS | 100 |
SETTLEMENT | 123 |
SOCIALITY | 139 |
RACE | 181 |
LANGUAGE | 202 |
HISTORY | 233 |
EVOLUTION | 264 |
Notes | 281 |
Acknowledgments | 297 |
About the Author 313 | |
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Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors Nicholas Wade Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2007 |
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors Nicholas Wade Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2007 |
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors Nicholas Wade Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2007 |
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